Can someone ID this slave cylinder. I bought it in good faith of evil bay as Left Front Type 3 drum slave cylinders, however, they are nothing like the 64 ones. Also, it was two of the same, not the left hand set.

DH

Looks like a slave cylinder for a hydraulic clutch to me, brake slave cylinders are almost always double-ended (one cylinder drilled all the way through with a piston in each end). Obviously air-cooled VWs don't have a hydraulic clutch so it's from some mystery car. Complain to eBay or look for a part number so you can re-list them.

Well, you learn something every day. How much smaller are they? Is it possible that they're just really badly made reproductions of Type 3 ones which got the bolt holes wrong?

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Originally posted by 1500SYou've got to get away from those primitive Type 1 cars. Yep Type 3 fronts are totally different to Bugs. DH

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Originally posted by waveman1500 Quote: Originally posted by 1500SYou've got to get away from those primitive Type 1 cars. Yep Type 3 fronts are totally different to Bugs. DH I did have a Type 3, but it was a '73 with disc brakes, so that didn't teach me anything about the early girls and their primitive drum brakes! Personally I would complain to the seller first and ask for an exchange or refund as they are not 'as described'. If they don't want to help you then complain to eBay. Good luck!

Possibly early imported type 3 with pushbutton dash or early kombi.One of the VW spare parts guys should be able to tell you.Vintage perhaps or Volksbahn.

Hi Dallas

Never seen anything like that...

I presume Your 1500S has two slave cylinders for each wheel..

on the front...

and that these look similar to yours...??

If You are like Me Dallas,
I check My Evil buys months later...
then I can't remember who I bought them off...
and its too late to complain to evil buy... lol
which it usually is... lol

Do You know if Australian made early type 3s had brakes like your 1500S ??

LEE

Hi Dallas,
the factory manual shows those ones to be the "early" wheel cylinders.


From chassis number 0027850 they increased the wheel cylinder size from 20.64 to 22.2 on models 31 and 34,

although model 36(wagon?) had this size from the first model(chassis 0009330).

This coincided with a master cylinder with 36mm stroke as opposed to the previous one with 33 strocke(same diameter).

Of note was that these early cars only had 231mm diameter brake drums front and rear.
(identified by a swirl pattern on the outside of the drum, instead of the later straight ribs).

From Chassis number 0221975 all type 3s were fitted with the upgraded("reinforced") brake system to account for the higher top speed.
master cylinder was reduced in size from 20.64 to 19.05,
variant wheel cylinders in the rear reduced from 25.4 to 23.8mm(!?),
and brake drums front and rear increased from 231mm to 248mm.

....which is when they changed the front wheel cylinder design..(and all the other brake associated parts(even the stub size from memory!)

Thanks for the full info Dave. When I got them they were sold as early Type 3 but no numbers. With the bores being 22 but the shorter cyls they would be the early wagon ones for the smaller drums.

Now it's time to do a full rebuild on all parts as the master cyl has a bit of a weep even though it was a NOS one about 7 years back. Nothing lasts these days!!

DH