Re: [T3] brake bleeding question

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 24 Aug 2005 at 9:25, Everett Barnes wrote:

> > Okay, this is getting more complicated and more interesting. Would you be 
> > able
> > to go to one of these early cars and measure the horizontal distance 
> > between
> > the back of the pedal and the metal crosspiece in front of it? I wonder if 
> > it
> > is closer than the 220/225mm specified for the later cars.
> >
> Unfortunately this is too difficult on my current '63 Squareback due to the 
> rubber mats (instead of carpet).

How about just measuring to the mat and then estimating the thickness of the 
mat?

> > Any chance that the early pedals just got set more "upright" than the 
> > tandem MC pedals?
> >
> I have noticed a difference.  Driving my '67 Squareback, I couldn't wear my 
> hiking boots because my shoe couldn't get in between the brake pedal and 
> tunnel to push the accelerator.  Size 10 shoe.  Even my normal tennis shoes 
> barely fit.  I've noticed other people asking about this in the past.
> 
> My '63 has tons of room.

Yes, getting big boots in there is a learned skill.  ;-)

The book shows just one brake pedal for '65-'69, and I don't know what changed 
in '69. They also show a different pushrod starting in '67, to be used with a 
different MC boot, which I don't recall ever seeing.

There is a gap in the brake pedals between the very early cars and '65. I can't 
tell what happened there.

It looks like there were a lot of changes being made for not very obvious 
reasons.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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