Brakes! - Another holiday job.

[Peter Jones]

It's been too hot to start anything major in the driveway so I've been cleaning and painting brake parts. The sun is doing a good job of the drying process!

I thought I'd pop up a few pics, not everyone would have seen all these types of brakes. They're all going onto my MKIs.

1 Seat Codoba '97 rear drums. These are going on my Red MkI.



2 10mm Solid Discs, brand new. These are going on the front of my red Golf. ATE calipers not sure what model these are off. The
other caliper is still drying.




3 Seat rear discs, Cordoba or Toledo I think, I got these from Matt (Golf Loon) and will finally get around to putting them on my White MKI. Freshly machined, new pads on the way, I already have the Scirocco handbrake cables to suit. This car already has GTI vented rotors and matching calipers up front. Guess I'll have to pull those off and paint them too!



All at once!


Paint is VHT Drum,rotor and caliper paint. It takes a while to dry but should stand up to the job.

As well as the Drum/Disc Combo Red will be getting a 22mm master cylinder and MKIII booster upgrade (from Valver) at the same time. I'll pop up some pics of the mods I'll have to do to the booster.

[Valver.]

Oooh, nice clean up job Did everything arrive? The actual swaybar may be a day behind as I sent it separately. All the brackets and brake stuff is in the same box, though

[Peter Jones]

This is another restoration project that I finally got around to. I've had this ratty old grinder under a bench for about 10 years.

I re-wired it and repainted it and bought a wire wheel to go on it. It's been the greatest thing for cleaning up all these brake parts.

[Peter Jones]

Oooh, nice clean up job Did everything arrive? The actual swaybar may be a day behind as I sent it separately. All the brackets and brake stuff is in the same box, though

Not yet, my regular postie is on holidays and his replacement is doing weird stuff with my parcels. I expect it'll turn up on Monday.

Pete

[Peter Jones]

Another little clean up job I did at the same time. This is a GTI front anti-sway bar that's going on Red Golf. Valver is Sending me a white line bar to go on White Golf. Confusing isn't it!

The brackets were pretty rusty before I hit them with the grinder!

[Peter Jones]

Just another shot of the process - parts drying in the sun. Even after a few hours of sunbaking the paint is still a little soft and tacky. You need to wait until the following day to re-assemble the bits. The bolt is just there to keep paint out of the internals.

[Oneofthegreats]

Nice clean up & paint job Pete.

Can I suggest, if your going rear disc, definately put some rear 16V proportion valves on. They make an absolute world of difference to the braking performance on a mk1! It's like 10 fold. I've had rear disc without them & it's like day & night.

I was stomping on the brakes from 180+ & I mean stomping! No sign of brake lockup, being skiddish etc at all.

Can pick them up off ebay every now & then. Just ot to get the ones with the right number's stamped on them.
Can't think of them off the top of my head though. Can you remember Valver if your out there?

[Peter Jones]

Nice clean up & paint job Pete.

Can I suggest, if your going rear disc, definately put some rear 16V proportion valves on.

Sounds like a good idea to me!I think there's been a thread or two on the subject, I'll have a look..

The universal adjustable ones seem cheap enough on e-bay.

I've also got the self adjusting proportioning valve out of a Codoba I wrecked. I was thinking of turning it into a manually adjustable valve. It has two circuits, All I'd have to do is make up a threaded adjuster for the lever arm.

I'll see how it all works once it's hooked up and go from there.

I'll probably upgrade this car to a 22mm master cylinder too at some stage.

Pete

[Peter Jones]

Found the thread. It was yours!

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newf...=proportioning

At $89.95 ea from http://www.autotech.com/prod_brakes_rrbrakeconv.htm

A Wilwood adjustable one off e-bay might be the way to go.





Pete

[Valver.]

That price is crazy!! I have a few more sets somemore - I'll have a look in the shed

Tim's right - you have to have something controlling the rear disc pressure, otherwise it can be pretty dangerous, especially in the wet. Trying to trail brake to tuck the nose in can end up in full opposite lock