your van has the later style sliding caliper ...
only one piston, and the caliper slides on pins ...
making sure it can slide nicely on those pins if very important.

I'm sure everyone knows this trick...
on all brake work,
always only do one side at a time.
that way ...if you wonder how something fits you can look at the other side.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Sullivan" <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: Question about caliper, was Replacing front brake pads

>I anxious to hear the answer to that as I am doing mine this weekend.
> BTW-I bought to rotors new from Bus Depot in the clearance dept for 25.00
> each due to some minor surface rust.
> http://busdepot.com/details.jsp?partnumber=SP250
>
> Just in case,
> Michael in San Antonio
> 91GL AT 'Gringo'
> 73 Beetle
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:25 PM, B Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote:
>
>> Hey, thanks everyone for the help with the front pads this morning. It
>> took
>> awhile to get spark plugs into my wifes A4 this morning so I was a bit
>> behind.
>>
>> Anyway, here is a photo of my right front brake rotor:
>> http://www.feddishbasses.com/vw/brakes.html . It looks pretty rusty and
>> very
>> little smooth wear. The pad on that side looked almost new and the pad on
>> the inside had about 3/16"s of pad left.  I'm no mechanic but this does
>> not
>> look right.  Is the caliper bad?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bryan
>>