Re: [T3] woohoo! and a question or 2...mainly disk brake caliper.

["Lino Beggs" <linobeggs@hotmail.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>I had the exact same problem....bad front brake hoses.  They look good from
the outside but the inside is disintegrating.
Lino
73 Squareback (auto)
74 Thing
73 Beetle Sedan
79 Super Beetle Convertible
60 Panel Van
71 Super Beetle Sedan
66 Beetle Sedan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Fuhriman" <mfuhriman@earthlink.net>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [T3] woohoo! and a question or 2...mainly disk brake caliper.


> Bet you the rubber hoses to the front brakes are bad.  They tend to swell
> inside and not allow the pressure in the caliper to go back down.  For the
> first little while the brakes didn't bind on you, right?  But as you kept
> using the brakes, the restricted diameter of your collapsing hoses caused
the
> brake fluid to gradually build up and eventually bind the brake.  Kind of
like
> a check valve, not letting the fluid drain back out of the caliper.
>
>  Get new rubber hoses all around.  The right rear hose is hard to find (I
> think the catalogs at the parts counter at the store are wrong).  Take the
old
> one in and get something close to the right length.  Raybestos has one
that's
> close.
>
> Replace the brake fluid.  If your car has sat for a long time, you might
want
> to get the calipers and brake cylinders rebuilt.  I recommend Jim Adney,
if
> he's available :)
>
> -Mark Fuhriman
>
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