[T3] size and pitch of rear brake drum bolts

Rafael Carrera rafcarre12 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 19:12:35 PDT 2013


Thank you very much!


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 9 Apr 2013 at 11:29, Dave Hall wrote:
>
> > Oops, I must read the question properly!
>
> ;-)
>
> > Oddly, the drawing in the parts book shows a hex head screw.
>
> Hmmm, right. I never noticed that before. Looks like no one showed
> the draftsman one of the bolts, or perhaps the first few cars,
> starting in '66, actually got hex heads, but then they were
> superceeded by the button heads with no change in the drawing.
>
> The button heads certainly LOOK nice, but they're a pain to deal
> with. For a part that's almost never visible, I'm surprised that VW
> bothered with the special bolt. It must have been one engineer's
> special "baby."
>
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