[T3] Caliper width

B Fye bfye at canyonville.net
Sun Mar 23 18:32:41 PDT 2014


Thanks Jim!

Brian Fye

> On Mar 23, 2014, at 6:06 PM, "Jim Adney" <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 23 Mar 2014 at 7:33, B Fye wrote:
>> 
>> Centerline of the car
> 
> I checked a caliper and it looks like there's plenty of metal between 
> the bottom of the cylinder and that outside end of the caliper. 
> Looking at that outside end, there's a flat face and 2 beveled 
> facets. I'm guessing that you should be able to remove as much of 
> that outside face as long as you leave at least half of the bevels.
> 
> Check the inside of the wheel. I'm guessing that the surface there is 
> curved so that the caliper only hits in the area along one edge of 
> one of the facets.
> 
> It's also possible that the interference is along one or more edges 
> of one of the facets. If that's the case, be careful, as there's very 
> little meat there. There will be more meat at the ends of those 
> edges.
> 
> The calipers I'm looking at are OG ATe. If you've got Vargas, then I 
> have no idea what they look like.
> 
> Another possible solution would be to have a machine shop make you a 
> spacer from 1/8" alum plate. A ring with 4 holes for the lug bolts 
> should give you enough spacing to make this work.
> 
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