Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:49:02 -0400
Reply-To: Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject: Re: Help stuck caliper slide pin
Come on guys, let's do a little data mining here.
Starting with what we know:
Need Guide Pins for brake caliper for an '86 Vanagon
Looking in the ETKA catalog we see no pins listed for the '86 Vanagon but if
you look at the '88 Vanagon, which has the same calipers, we see Guide Pins
(Description notation (3) 251 615 219A) for ATE calipers.
Now taking this part number to the BusDepot website, we find these pins are
available from Germany.
If we do a Google search with this part number, we see on a Russian website
where these are used on several Audi models, including the late 1987 Audi
100. This is confirmed for the US version by going back to the ETKA Audi
section.
Looking back at the Google search, we see that there is a Beck Arnley
product (084-1244 Brake Guide Pin Kit) that is two guide pins, rubber seals,
and bolts for the 1987 Audi 100 and the following other cars:
* 1989-1994 Audi 100
* 1989-1993 Audi 100 Quattro
* 1989-1991 Audi 200
* 1989-1991 Audi 200 Quattro
* 1980-1987 Audi 4000
* 1984-1987 Audi 4000 Quattro
* 1980-1988 Audi 5000
* 1986-1988 Audi 5000 Quattro
* 1988-1992 Audi 80
* 1988-1992 Audi 80 Quattro
* 1988-1991 Audi 90
* 1988-1991 Audi 90 Quattro
* 1995-1995 Audi A6 Quattro
* 1981-1987 Audi Coupe
* 1990-1991 Audi Coupe Quattro
* 1973-1979 Audi Fox
* 1983-1985 Audi Quattro
* 1992-1993 Audi S4
* 1995-1995 Audi S6
* 1990-1993 Audi V8 Quattro
* 1984-1985 BMW 318i
* 1984-1989 Mercedes Benz 190D
* 1984-1986 Mercedes Benz 190E
Now you have lots of options:
Either buy them from a list vendor
or
buy them from a FLAPS or internet FLAPS
or
go to a salvage yard and pull them from one of the above mentioned cars.
All it takes is just a little work to find this information.
Of course, don't buy these based on my notes here. Do your own research and
convince yourself that you are getting the correct part.
I also would like to mention, from my own experience, that the top surface
where the pin mates to the caliper, must be absolutely perpendicular to the
axis of the pin or the caliper will jam when the pin bolts are tightened. I
know this because I purchased some calipers a while back and they were not
packed securely. During shipment the very heavy box was dropped and the
pins were bent because the calipers were shipped assembled on the carriers.
This caused the calipers to jam and overheated my brakes, destroying the
grease seals and throwing wheel bearing grease all over everything,
including the pads and discs.
Regards,
Ed