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On 19 Dec 98, at 10:49, JWe1648290@aol.com wrote: > Jim you mentioned that you rebuild the calipers, I have a bunch of 66,67 and > 68 era units(all looking the same and not knowing the modle changes). Where do > you get the guts to rebuild a unit and how much $$$ are they. I was allways > told to just buy the Brazil stuff(compleet ready to intall caliper) because > its less exspensive. But I allways found that that hard to belive. How can > some rubber parts cost more than a compleet new caliper. You just need to buy a caliper kit to rebuild these, but it actually takes a bit of experience and skill to do this. Since you have several calipers to work on, you might be able to do this. While there are 2 kits for our cars, they are the same except for the rataining plates and the caliper mounting bolts and lock plates (if supplied.) These kits are $10-20 per caliper and come from either Fag or ATe. I actually used to get these at very good prices from J C Whitney. Any decent foreign car parts shop should be able to order these for you. Once you learn what actually goes wrong, you will learn that you can often rebuild more than 1 caliper per kit you purchase. There are some internal differences between the 66-7 and 68-71 calipers, but no functional difference and they interchange. I rebuild them because I believe it is the environmentally responsible thing to do. Most people do not, because it is an intimidating task, they don't know how, they are in a hurry, or they are lazy. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe