need some rear caliper advise

[vwrocco87@hotmail.com (Brad Sayer)]

I recently installed brand new A3 calipers on my car.  They need to be 
bolted on upside down (switched sides) and bled in the normal upright 
position before bolting them on (upside down).  Other than that they fit 
fine, ebrake lines up, brake line lines up, and they work great.  Ebrake 
seizing is fixed with these as they are now an internal mechanism.  And they 
are only aobut $65 each.

Brad


>From: Andrew Stauffer <andrew.stauffer@cannondale.com>
>To: "'scirocco list'" <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
>Subject: need some rear caliper advise
>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:02:40 -0500
>
>
>
>My sob story:
>
>I'm rebuilding a pair or rear calipers from an 87 16v rocco.   I tear down
>the calipers, sand blast the calipers and carriers, powdercoat them and
>begin to rebuild.  The first goes back together very easily and looks 
>great,
>the second gives more trouble.  In the process of dealing with the
>additional trouble provided by the 2nd caliper, I drop the caliper piston.
>In  a frantic attempt to catch it before it hits the cement floor and
>potentially harms itself, I make a grab  at the falling piston and only
>succede in effectively throwing the caliper at the floor with much more
>force than had I simply dropped it.  Argh.  So now I have a 16v rear brake
>caliper piston that does indeed have a dented skirt and no longer fits into
>the bore in the caliper.  Double argh.
>
>What to do?  Every where I call wants to sell me a new or reman'd caliper.
>The cost of a new caliper almost doubles the project cost, not good, and 
>I'm
>leary of  reman'd units as I'm told they never had the e brake issue worked
>out.   I'
>m not familiar with this problem, but I guess the e brake  quit working?
>Anyway, I'm staying away from reman'd units for the time being.
>
>
>'So I'm thinking I need to find a  piston at a junk yard somewhere.  Do you
>think that most VW rear brake calipers will have a piston of same  diameter
>and functionality?  For instance, it will probably be easier to find an A2
>or A3 Golf/Jetta with rear disc brakes to offer up a piston than a 16v
>rocco.   Would this work for me?
>
>In thinking this through, I realized that if I was infact going to have to
>buy new to get good calipers AND functional e brake mechanism, I should 
>look
>into finding a set of "New" calipers(off the Mk4s) as they're cast aluminum
>and light.  So would these bolt up?   I might not mind shelling out for
>those.....anyone got any experience to offer with that idea?
>
>Thanks for any ideas or guidance in how to cost effectively get around this
>set back.
>
>
>
>
>Andrew Stauffer
>Cannondale Purchasing
>www.cannondale.com
>andrew.stauffer@cannondale.com
>ph. 814 623 4516
>fax 814 623 8917
>
>
>
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