Re: [T3] those rubber bump stoppers

["Stephen Jackson" <stevejax61@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>The speedo cable is on the FRONT wheels?  How bizarre!  Most cars I have 
worked on have that on the trans. counting driveshaft revolutions...having 
it on the wheel guarantees inaccuracy while making a corner....


> From: Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>
> Reply-To: type3@vwtype3.org
> To: type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] those rubber bump stoppers
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:50:40 -0500
>
> On 29 Oct 2005 at 13:12, Stephen Jackson wrote:
>
> > Ok guys, I just pulled the other three wheels off the car and had a 
> closer
> > look.  The rears are both missing but the mushroom head is still in 
> great
> > shape both sides.  The fronts both have badly deteriorated rubbers on 
> the
> > top (pointing down) and fairly nice-looking rubbers on the bottom 
> (pointed
> > up!)  I also noted the presence of the brake line going into the 
> caliper,
> > and another line that goes into the backside of the spindle backing 
> plate,
> > not sure what the function of this is.  As old as these cars are, 
> couldn't
> > be ABS sensor could it?
>
> That's the speedometer cable.  ;-)
>
> Glad to hear that your mushrooms are in good shape. I MIGHT have some
> rear stops but no fronts.
>
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