On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:35 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: > Just for giggles I checked my 68-79 Van Bentley, since late Bays used the > same calipers as early Vanagons, AFAIK. They show the caliper split and 2 > small o-rings between the halves, but say not to split unless there is a > leak there. They also give better directions for the piston/seal rebuild, > including the helpful info left out of the Vanagon Bentley that you need to > do the pistons one at a time. I was wrong about the late Bentley, it does > show the caliper rebuild for all years starting on page 47.4. > > Mark >
Hey that's useful to know about the 2 "O" rings. Eases my mind knowing that they came from the factory like that. I wasn't sure if it was some kind of "rebuilt caliper" process/change My driver side rebuilt joint looks the same as the failed one. (i.e. not same as replacement caliper) Neil. -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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