Re: Rear brake woes continue...

[mark.peele@juno.com (Mark A. Peele)]

All this talk about rear disks is beginning to push me away from them. I
was planning to do (in time) my girlfriend's '78, my '82 and my 1987 Golf
GT. The perceived benefit to me is (was) the ease of pad replacement - I
really HATE replacing Drum Brake Linings! (Even if the interval is
100,000 miles).

Is this hassle really universal with the rear discs?
__________________________________________________________
 . . . Mark
Scirocco 1982, 1980S (dying), previously 1981S (RIP), 1975TS, 1975

On Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:24:07 -0400 brett@kodak.com (Brett VanSprewenburg)
writes:
>
>> 
>> You are all probably quite bored by now of my continuing woeful 
>rants 
>> about
>> my rear disc conversion on my '82. To remind you...snip, snip, 
>snip... 
>> Is this so, have any of you encountered this problem on your 16vs? 
>The 
>> calipers themselves haven't seized, just the e-brake part that seems 
>
>> to be spring-loaded.
>> 
>
>Yeah, I've had this happen before.  I went through 5 rebuilt calipers
>before I got a set that 1. didn't leak, 2. the e-brake worked, and
>3. the caliper actually would squeeze the pads.  After meeting those
>minimal requirements, I was satisfied.  I bought them at Pep Boys, 
>about
>$90 each I think.  They *really* liked seein' me a bunch of times 
>before
>I got parts that worked.
>
>==Brett
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