On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:10 PM, neil N<musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > Inspect entire caliper. Mine looked fine from above. View from below: > > http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/FrontCaliperToast.jpg/FrontCaliperToast-full;init:.jpg
To be clear, dust seal was present (not shown in pic), but viewing underside of caliper showed it was badly cracked. The seal all but fell off. Though hard to see, there were spots of rust on piston too.
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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