Re: Brakes-Solved & A3 Calipers

[Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net>]

>The problem with my pedal to the floor brakes turned out to be the 
>Master Cylinder.  Replaced it yesterday and the brakes are good. 
>Still need to be broken in a bunch but the pedal feels good now. 
>Not sure how the old one got ruined, but it turned out to be the 
>wrong size (20 not 22mm) anyway.
>
>Many may be interested in this:  I used the A3 rear calipers on my 
>car.  Brand new, only about $65-70 (compared to 140 for Scirocco 
>calipers) and new internal ebrake design eliminates siezing that 
>plagues our cars.  The calipers bolt right up when switched sides, 
>(left to right and right to left) and flipped over.  The ebrake 
>lines up perfectly and works fine.  Regular sized 16V brake lines 
>are used. The only issue was a matter of bleeding the brakes 
>properly.  I simply bled the rears with a pressure bleeder while 
>holding the calipers in thier stock A3 position.  After bleeding, I 
>flipped them over and bolted them on.  Very easy!
>
>I definately recomend this to everyone!
>
>Brad
>
>87 16V Scirocco


In an interesting and related note:

I just bought a magazine (Volkswagen Driver) with a caliper 
replacement article.  I pretty
much bought it for this article, as I was pretty sure that A2 & A3 
rear calipers could
probably be used on our cars.  Anyway, the article discusses 
replacing the 'problem'
A2 calipers with the much improved A4 units...anyway game for trying 
A4 units on a
the back of a Scirocco?   Looks like the same trick can work, as the 
article definately
talks about how the A3 calipers used to be the best hook-up 
replacement for the A2's....
if you see what I mean.

==Brett

 \/  '84 Scirocco (ITB racer 2B) | "Hot VW's, take two home. They're small"
\/\/ '88 Scirocco 16v (Show), '92 Passat 16v (Winter+) | - brett@netacc.net

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