9.4 brakes

[fahrvergnugen at cox.net (fahrvergnugen@cox.net)]

German-made cars have one style, and American-made the other.  Someone else will have to pipe-up with which is which, I am apt to get it wrong...  :-)

David
> 
> From: Gordy Stedman <ydrogs@gmail.com>
> Date: 2005/09/07 Wed AM 10:56:25 EDT
> To: Jeff Toomasson <area53@validpath.com>,  Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: 9.4 brakes
> 
> There were also at least 2 different 9.4" piston calipers used on the A1. 
> One was the Teven (sp) or ATE and the other one I have found was KH 
> (Kelsey-Haynes I think). The ATE caliper has the hole on the back of the 
> flat part that makes for a good leverage point to push in the piston. I went 
> to get a seal kit for my ATE calipers and found that the dust cover would 
> not fit into the slot in the caliper. I do not know what year or model of 
> car these came in and there are no VW part numbers on the calipers that I 
> could see. I got a part number off the old dust cover and ran it through 
> ETKA but it could not find it:( Back to the part store.
> 
> On 9/6/05, Jeff <scorpio71@charter.net> wrote: 
> > 
> > On the subject of brakes, I'm swapping the tiny solid fronts on my 79 for
> > vented 9.4 inch from a GTi. I was wondering if there is a difference 
> > between
> > the bearing housings. And is there a difference between the 9.4 housings 
> > and
> > the 10.1's? Thanks for all the help. Jeff
> > P.S. I'll be upgrading to bigger drums, not installing discs. :)
> 
>  -- 
> Gordy
> MK1 x 3
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