[T3] Now a brake glitch

[Tim Keohane]

I have my old calipers, and will ship them off to you for inspection and assessment when you get home. ( They are ATE with VW cast in both and 33 on one and 40 on the other)I believe I replaced them in early 2000-2001. My goal is to get these brakes to last for more miles than the ones I'm taking out. These were shimmed and then ground a touch to get clearance from the wheel which is stock.

Is there a way to check the rebuilt ones for quality of parts and rebuild?

 I'm not heavily experienced at brakes but have lots of mechanical time on my commercial fishing vessels in Alaska. 

Thanks
Tim
73 T3 auto



On Oct 28, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Jim Adney wrote:

> On 28 Oct 2015 at 10:04, Tim Keohane wrote:
> 
>> I was able to locate a set of german calipers for the my square back.
>> (71.5 to 73) They are rebuilt and ready for installation. 
> 
> This is not likely to be the good news you're hoping for. Most 
> rebuilders don't assemble these calipers properly and there's no way 
> for you to know this. Please don't give them your old original 
> calipers, as they will just ruin them, too. Once ruined, they can't 
> be restored.
> 
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