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On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:18, Jim Adney wrote: > On 26 Mar 2003 at 21:05, Jim Adney wrote: > > > On 26 Mar 2003 at 23:12, Dave Hall wrote: > > > > > Is this a caliper mounting bolt hole we're talking about? That's M12, isn't it, > > > or have I confused two different posts? > > > > His is a 69, so I thought that was an M8, or am I wrong and they are really an > > M10? The later (72-3) caliper mounting bolts were 2mm bigger. > > Yeah, I was wrong. I should RTFM. > > early (66-71) caliper mounting bolts: M10 (x 1.5?) > > late (72-3) are M12 (x 1.5?) > > This was wrong in Bentley AND in Service Without Guesswork, too! I had to > measure calipers to make sure. > I just looked, and my 1960 through 1970 Service without Guesswork book calls the caliper to knuckle bolt out as M10 and 29 ft lbs torque. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org