One part of the Notch front brake setup which wasn't checked back around 2000 was the actual adjuster. The cylinders were totally cleaned, honed and
new cups put in BUT!! Get a look at one of the adjusters when I went for a total strip down. No wonder one shoe was a bit dodgy to adjust. The hole
in the nut is tapped way out of square. This is all original from 1964. A "poet's day" build!
Don't rely on the thoughts that VW did everything right regarding quality control back then!
DH
[size=4]THAT SEEMS INCREDIBLE DALLAS
Maybe Yours was a prototype??
hand made by a NON German.. lol
If they were making thousands of these at a time ....
are all the others the same????
or maybe a machine malfunction...??
I hope so....
LEE
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German engineering or 45 years of use???
A manufacturing mishap Matt. Nothing is bent, nothing is worn. The car has still only travelled around 38,000 miles since it rolled off the
production line in 1964. Gone into the jig out of line and was drilled and tapped that way. Not unheard of even now. A few years back I had a
3/16" Whit die brand new and the thread in that was out of square about 5 degrees. Actually kept it as a sample for students to see how things can
go wrong in production.
No joke Lee, I think this car was out in the paddock waiting for a few bits before it was painted OR the parcel shelf was stamped from a rusty piece
of metal. The surface rust was beautifully trapped under the original paint! Other than that the car was one of the best rust free German S cars
I've seen here......... but then again there were never many of them here to see!! I've only ever seen or heard of about a dozen in total in all
these years.
DH
Gotta say I'm not sure about that, if it was tapped incorrectly the hole in the adjuster would be a neat fit albeit misaligned, but you can see in the last pic, the adjuster screw can be true to the center, but has flogged the hole out of center.....I've seen that wear before, maybe from pad/shoe vibrations or something, certainly didn't get moved/adjusted for some time.
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Not German engineering - it's Australian. Those little parts were locally made for the Clayton factory in Melbourne. 1964-67 were the years of
maximum Australian content - although Type 3s didn't quite have the same local content as Beetles.
Not sure who the local supplier of small parts like that could have been - Repco is one possibility.
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