These replaced original, never rebuilt, calipers on my 84 Westy… after my first failure when drivers side seal failed and started leaking at 190k miles.

I’ve owned my Westy since 1987, so I know they were original.  Didn’t want to take a chance on rebuilt, as I didn’t know the history.

 

 

 

From: Neil N [mailto:musomuso@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 12:35 AM
To: Jack R
Cc: vanagon
Subject: Re: new calipers (e.g., from busdepot)?

 

Hi.

 

Did these new callipers replace rebuilt callipers that were faulty or worn? e.g. leaking or seized? i.e. was the quality of these new callipers just that much better than a rebuilt that it resulted in better brakes? 

 

I recently had a calliper hardware part fail. New hardware wasn't easily available so I "broke down" and replaced the rebuilts with "new" rebuilts. Though the brakes work ok, brakes feel identical to what they were before. i have to wonder if a new part would be an improvement.

 

Thanks

 

Neil.

 

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Jack R <jack007@comcast.net> wrote:

 

I've had wonderful success with these, I purchased 4 years ago, and my brakes have never been better on my 84 Westy.

I did have to modify the brake line to make them fit right, but it was cheap and easy with a replacement rigid line from my FLAPS.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of pickle vanagon
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 11:29 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: new calipers (e.g., from busdepot)?

 

 

Busdepot apparently sells brand new calipers:

 

http://www.busdepot.com/251615107
http://www.busdepot.com/251615108

 

 

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