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On 20 Oct 2004 at 6:29, BOB2TYPE3S@aol.com wrote: > I have a set of Varga (brazilian) that use those same styled 2 pins with > clips. These are on the front of my Notch, and were new back in 88. These also > have dual bleeders on them, and use the same pads that an early 71 and earlier > car uses. The way to tell them from the OE ate calipers is that they have a > centering nub (for the piston) on the outside of the caliper that sticks out > pretty good. I hope this helps. IIRC, there is a bit of a bump on the outside of the castings of all the calipers, just outside of where the center of the piston would be. For the OE style calipers, that would be where the compensating pin is anchored; the late calipers don't have this pin, but I think they just left the casting as is. Is this what you mean, or are yours even more prominent? I'm not sure I'm remembering this correctly, in spite of the fact that I spent yesterday afternoon taking apart about 6 calipers. My new caliper pump worked great; I didn't have the slightest bit of trouble getting even the worst of them apart. There were a couple that I had to press down with nearly my full weight, though. I figure that with this new pump I can put about 1500 psi behind one of those pistons. That's about 15 times what I used to be able to do. I used to spend hours getting a medium stuck one apart; now it takes about 10 minutes, which includes the fiddling time that it takes to plug the first piston opening so I can pump out the second piston. I was probably close to 1000 psi with some of these pistons. At 1000 psi, there would be about 2150 pounds of force pushing that piston out. No wonder these were hard for me to do before. ;-p I'm gonna have a few calipers ready to go here in a couple of days, but I'm still looking for good used early calipers. My experience yesterday seems to indicate that old ones that have been stored a long time might actually be in fairly decent shape once I get them all apart. So, yes, Keith, I'm interested in that stash you have. I wonder how much that box will weight.... -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~