grogy Custom Title Time!
1,000 posts · joined Aug 2007 ·
i got new set disc calipers, how can i tell wot they r, ghia, bug fastback. thanks greg
disc calipers difference?
Menangler Custom Title Time!
1,991 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
They will all interchange except for very late Type 3 calipers, they have a different bolt spacing and use a thicker disc.
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Newt Wolfsburg Wizard
478 posts · joined Mar 2008 ·
Any other calipers interchangable with the bug caliper?
I read somewhere about Talbot? (Is Talbot English for something Australian?).
Newt
I read somewhere about Talbot? (Is Talbot English for something Australian?).
Newt
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1303Steve Scirocco Rare
8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
Hi
As already said all Beetle and early Type 3 callipers are interchangeable. They are all slightly different.
1500 Beetles and 1971 supers used a single pin calliper with a square pad.
72 supers used twin pin calliper with a square pad
73, 74 & 75 L bugs and 76 bugs used a single pin calliper with almost round pads
Early Type 3s used a calliper that is almost the same as a the 1972 Super bug calliper, the Type 3 calliper has only one bleed nipple, the 1972 Super has 2 bleed nipples.
All Beetle callipers use 40 mm pistons, Early Type 3s and the late wider bolt pattern Type 3 / 4 calliper use 42 mm pistons.
I've tried to get Talbot Horizon callipers but I've had no luck
Steve
This is what the pads look like
As already said all Beetle and early Type 3 callipers are interchangeable. They are all slightly different.
1500 Beetles and 1971 supers used a single pin calliper with a square pad.
72 supers used twin pin calliper with a square pad
73, 74 & 75 L bugs and 76 bugs used a single pin calliper with almost round pads
Early Type 3s used a calliper that is almost the same as a the 1972 Super bug calliper, the Type 3 calliper has only one bleed nipple, the 1972 Super has 2 bleed nipples.
All Beetle callipers use 40 mm pistons, Early Type 3s and the late wider bolt pattern Type 3 / 4 calliper use 42 mm pistons.
I've tried to get Talbot Horizon callipers but I've had no luck
Steve
This is what the pads look like
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68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --
11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
Talbots were Scottish made cars... Rootes group..
then taken over by the french...
I've never seen one in Australia...
LEE
then taken over by the french...
I've never seen one in Australia...
LEE
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grogy Custom Title Time!
1,000 posts · joined Aug 2007 ·
thanks for the info, i must have super/b cause they have 2 nipples per caliper