Lockup advice?

[haygood at myway.com (Brian Haygood)]

I'm in the process of ordering some A4 calipers (that's late model Jetta, not Audi A4) for the rear of my 16v.  Apparently they need some kind of adaptor to get the brake lines to hook up, and you have to mount the on the opposite sides to get the e-brake routing to work.  I'm getting the brake lines from the A4 as well, so I can splice those in to get around the adaptor.  Ask someone who knows about the A2 and A3 calipers - I think those bolt right up, also on the wrong side, but with no adaptors.  I 'm unsure of this, but I think someone told me the A2 calipers might not be any better.  Can't sware to that, though.  A4 calipers are aluminum, which kinda makes me happy, so I went with those.



Brian









 --- On Sat 09/10, Blake Irvin < blake@clockworm.com > wrote:

From: Blake Irvin [mailto: blake@clockworm.com]

To: brett@netacc.net

     Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org, blake@clockserver.homeip.net

Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:46:38 -0400

Subject: Re: Lockup advice?



is there a preferred replacement for the A1 hardware?<br><br>blake/<br><br>--<br><br>Windows Vista:<br><br>1) Viruses.<br>2) Infections.<br>3) Spyware.<br>4) Trojans.<br>5) Adware.<br><br><br>On Sep 10, 2005, at 9:27 , Brett Van Sprewenburg wrote:<br><br>>> OK - the '88 16v I'm getting has been sitting for about 5 months.   <br>>> Won't roll in neutral.  Right rear wheel is the one skidding when  <br>>> we push the car.  Tried spraying WD-40-ish stuff on the right  <br>>> brake disk/caliper, still no luck.  Any ideas?  I'm not going to  <br>>> finish paying for the car until this is resolved, naturally...<br>>><br>>> I disengaged the e-brake cabling just in case that was the cause.<br>>><br>>> blake/<br>>><br>><br>><br>> Perhaps was the e-brake "set" on during those 5 months? Or part of  <br>> it? I made the error<br>> of doing this once myself, and I ended up having to replace both  <br>> rear calipers because<br>> the mechanisms where locked. :-(  Duh.<br>><br>> As has been 
noted here recently, the A1 rear disc brake caliper is  <br>> not one of VW's<br>> shining moments of great engineering.  They suffer from many  <br>> issues, and I'm afraid,<br>> you've got one of them.<br>><br>> How are you at mechanical work?  There are some high-force methods  <br>> you might try,<br>> but I'm not going to suggest them as some scenarios could lead you  <br>> dropping the car<br>> on yourself if you weren't well versed in working like that....ah,  <br>> heh.<br>><br>> In the end, you're probably better off replacing the caliper (at  <br>> least that side) and the<br>> pads and discs.  Remember, your spraying an oil lubricant on your  <br>> brakes trying to free this<br>> one...probably not the hot ticket for increased stopping power and  <br>> eyeball popping e-brake slides.<br>><br>> ==Brett<br>><br>><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Scirocco-l mailing 
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