RE: remanufactured parts

["Brubaker, John" <JBrubaker@AMF.com>]

Owen wrote:

        I just wrecked my right rear caliper on my 87 16v.  I dont 
think the
brake fluid had been changed in the life of the car.  So when i went 
to undo
the bleeder screw on the rr it was totally rusted shut and with the
slightest bit of pressure it snapped.  Our efforts to get it out with 
an
easy out didn't make anything easy.  I broke off inside the bleeder 
screw.
So now you could say i'm screwed(ha).  My question is first does 
anyone know
what i could do to avoid replacing it (especially since i just 
finished
painting the calipers a few days before)

Well you could dry drilling out the old bleeder valve stem and then 
inserting a new one (but you must be verrrrrry cafeful).  Actually, 
I'm not even sure that this will work; I tried it on the premis that 
it seemed logical, but after all the care to get it right and being 
psyched that the new bleeder valve fit, once I got it on the car and 
hooked up, the valve leaked.  I think I drilled down too far into the 
caliber.  Even though I was not successful, I believe it is possible 
(maybe even worth it since you want to save your new paint job).

 and if i do need a new one, I'm not exactly prepared to shell out 
$600 for a new one at the dealership,  is the remanufacturing done by 
VW, or private companies?

I would avoid the dealer if at all possible.  Call your local 
junkyard, see what they got (you know, I should become a full time 
junkyard advocate).  I'm not familiar with the 87 16v brakes at all, 
and I may be naÔve, but I've pulled about three different calibers off 
cars in a junkyard, cleaned em up and have had no problems.  I'm not 
saying this is always the case, I don't actually know a lot about the 
actual insides of a caliber (maybe I should disect one).  Anyone, 
anyone??  Anyway, $600 for a caliber is REDICULOUS.  Also, how do you 
remanufacture a caliber?

That's my $.02,

John
80 Scirocco S
85 GTI


                        Thanx in advance

                                                  OWEN


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