[T3] NEEDED: Front Calipers 72-73

[James Griffin]

Hello All,

Gather round and listen to my tale of woe.

I purchased a Type III Squareback from a lovely little old lady named Grace.  Her husband had kept this bad boy on the road for the last 40 years.  I took on the car and it has been my daily driver for the last 2 years.  I started experiencing some brake trouble and as I dug in I found a stripped out bleeder screw on my Driver side caliper.  Since these were made to be reversible, and it was the bottom screw, I did a little bodge job with some JB Weld and a 7mm bolt.  This seemed to hold up fine.  But upon bleeding I found now I was having leakage from my Passenger caliper.  It was coming from INSIDE.  Time to rebuild.  But, as I looked at the caliper I noticed it was completely different to my Drivers side.  Both were manufactured by ATS, who no longer makes them. (Believe me I talked to the factory in Germany)

So:

Question 1 -  Should I rebuild the passenger caliper and keep running two different model years of caliper?

Question 2 - Does anyone have stock they would be willing to part with?  


I want to keep this old girl on the road as my daily driver.  As such, any help would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers,

James