Date:         Wed, 7 Sep 2011 08:13:07 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Brake Fade
Comments: To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
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On 09/06/2011 09:24 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
> Of course you can buy a lot of really good brake parts after you run off the
> road or into something else. And in New York any trailer 1,000 pounds or
> more will have its own brakes!
>
> For the budget mined the brake spindles, calipers, rotors, and hoses from an
> 86 and later will bolt up. Slightly larger pads and 15mm thick rotors
> provide some improved heat dissipation. It is real important for the rear
> brakes to be working properly.
>

Anyone got such things to sell? There are many, many Vanagons hereabouts
and parts are stripped off their carcasses before they hit the ground,
so pick 'n' pull places don't offer much.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
Bend, Ore.
1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.

Sent from my kitchen.