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| posted on May 30th, 2010 at 10:08 PM |
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Past German Engineering!!
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
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| posted on May 30th, 2010 at 10:42 PM |
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[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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| posted on May 30th, 2010 at 11:00 PM |
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German engineering or 45 years of use???
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| posted on May 30th, 2010 at 11:23 PM |
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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.
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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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| posted on May 31st, 2010 at 12:05 AM |
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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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Just the way the pic was taken Matt. Remember I have the part sitting in front of me here on the desk! The screw is a nice neat fit in the nut with
no sign of wear. If you look at the side view you can see how far off centre the hole is at the end which fits into the cylinder casting.
Definitely a manufacturing fault which had fallen through the cracks!
DH
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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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posted by Phil74Camper
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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No no Phil!! This one was never near any production line in Clayton or anywhere else in Australia. It is the fully imported German built 1500S of
about April 1964 and that part, as well as the rest of the car except transmission was as it was off the assembly line. Just a bad day with a bit of
swarf caught under the adjuster when it was drilled and tapped!
Do you think I'd own one of those lower quality OZ built 1500 S things!!
DH
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