[T3] Type 3 front break calipers

73 squareback Cincy swaffordvw at cinci.rr.com
Tue Mar 21 18:18:57 PDT 2017


Also make sure it isnt just the rubber line. I replaced mine a while 
back. Come to find out it was just the rubber line.
Just some advice i learned from.

Chris537

On 3/21/2017 3:26 PM, Bobsnotch at aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 3/20/2017 9:13:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jadney at vwtype3.org writes:
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> Type 3  calipers have 42 mm pistons and each piston will have that little
> bump in
> the center, facing the pad. There are 2 versions, early and late. Late
> calipers
> take larger pads and have larger attaching bolts which are spaced  farther
> apart.
> A quick way to determine early and late calipers is to measure the caliper
> attaching bolt spacing. For early calipers it's 2 3/4 inches between the
> centers  of the bolt heads. For late calipers it's 3 inches.
> I hope this helps.
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> Bob 65 Notch  S with Sunroof
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