Scott H wrote:
> "Joey Tribiani" wrote ...
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>>"Scott H" > wrote in message
.com...
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>>>Are they making a universal brake shoe for the Super Beetle that will work
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>>for both the front and rear?
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>>>Or are the front and rear shoes always different?
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>>Scott, most of the shoes available at a local shop are relined and even
>>years ago, it was becoming difficult to get fronts and rears....usually they
>>only carried the rears,a nd they are somewhat "universal" in that the spring
>>holes and wherre they meet the wheel cylinder/adjuster are the same
>>location....so they work just fine...i sold my 71sb in 92(i believe) and it
>>had rear shoes on the front....(i had to ride all around town to get the
>>pathetic explanation from several that they don't get the fronts returned
>>for cores as often as the rears, and that they concentrate on relining the
>>rears which are "fine")
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> Thanks for the reply, Chris.
>
> If the holes were in the *exact* same location, I wouldn't worry about it .... but on these new ones the notch for the parking brake
> link is in the location where the spring holes are on the old shoes. The holes that are there on the new shoes are just above that
> and are closer together, making me worry about the return spring length and tension.
>
> I called a few non-VW FLAPS, hoping that they might have a front set in stock that I could take a look at.
> No luck, of course. Pep Boys got my hopes up when they said they had a set but when I got there it was a set for a standard Beetle.
> I think I'm just going to wait and clarify this with my VW parts place tomorrow.
>
> Thanks again,
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> Scott
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AHhh, in Scandinavia we where lucky, all 1302's and 1303's came with
front disks... even the 1300cc engine that looked like a 1600(DP heads).

J.