Austin,

I appreciate, greatly,  your speedbleeders information.  Thank you.  You
saved my day in the brake woird..

I have forwarded your information to Michael and Whitney Sulwer at
speedbleeders with the expectation that they will send me the
appropriate items, so I can get on the road.

I appreciate this List, too.

Best regards,

Tom Hanlon

Austin wrote:

> At 04:09 PM 11/24/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >Has anyone purchased Speedbleeders for an 84 Westfalia Vanagon from
> >speedbleeders.com?
> >
> >The Speedbleeders for the slave cylinder, SB6100, fit perfectly, and
> the
> >rebuilt clutch slave cylinder is operative.  But that is another
> message
> >on another subject which I will post later.
> >
> >The Speedbleeders for the rear wheel cylinders did not fit.
> >
> >The person at Speedbleeder checked the conversion chart from VW's
> stock
> >numbers for the front bleeder screws; and she assured me that the
> >dimension, 7 mm x 1.00 thread pitch, was correct..
> >VW dealer gives 113 615 273 A, as the VW part number.
> >
> >She  further assured me that the 8 mm x 1.25 thread pitch for the
> rear
> >bleeder was correct.
> >VW dealer gives 211-611-477 A, as the VW part number
> >
> >I did not check the front wheel cylinders,  because I didn't want to
> >open the system and have go through the bleeding process a second
> time,
> >in the event the front Speedbleeder did not fit, either..
> >
> >Does anyone on the List have access to that information?  If I have
> the
> >specs, then Speedbleeder can perform.
> >
> >Tom Hanlon
>
> Before I ordered mine (retentive nitpicker that I am), I pulled the
> stock
> bleeders from 1 ea front caliper, rear drum, & the clutch slave, &
> found as
> follows:
>
> front (Girling) calipers - 7 X 1.0 (S.B. #SB7100)
> rear (stock VW) drums - 6 X 1.0 (S.B. #6100)
> clutch slave (stock VW) - 6 X 1.0 (S.B. #6100)
>
> i.e. - order 3 ea. #SB6100, & 2 ea. #SB7100; This is for an '87 GL,
> 2WD.
> Speedbleeder *does* list different ones, maybe for other Vanagons (?),
> but
> an initial glance showed that the rear drums bleeders were noticeably
> smaller than those in the front calipers, which is why I went to the
> trouble of actually pulling & checking.
>
> (BTW, I didn't have to bleed after measuring; as I pulled the stock
> bleeders, a small amount of fluid would drain until I sealed the
> threaded
> hole with a cone shaped rubber plug...little more leaked while doing
> the
> reverse - in a properly operating brake system, the drained fluid is
> replaced from the master cylinder reservoir, not from air going into
> the
> slave from the opened hole. (BUT that is NOT an excuse to not bleed if
>
> necessary !!!).
>
> Austin