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Settell24
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:12 pm    Post subject: Installing new brake parts? Reply with quote

I just purchased all new brake cylinders, hoses, springs, shoes/pads and master cylinder....can anyone that knows anything about brakes give me an idea of where to start....wheather I do the hoses first or the springs?

Any instruction will help.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Installing new brake parts? Reply with quote

Settell24 wrote:
I just purchased all new brake cylinders, hoses, springs, shoes/pads and master cylinder....can anyone that knows anything about brakes give me an idea of where to start....wheather I do the hoses first or the springs?

Any instruction will help.

Thanks Smile


one brake at a time..

the hose is the last part you take off and 1st part to put on.

check out this website lots of good stuff here.
http://www.vw-resource.com/brakeslinks.html
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

First get a good mental picture of how it is now.
got it?
good.
Ok take off the old shoes, springs,
then un do the hose, unbolt the wheel cylinder,
put new hose on hardline from car.
and make it the way it was but with new parts.
done.
now do it to three more wheels then swap the master cylinder and bleed starting from the furthest wheel from master and work your way closer
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

THanks guys...very helpful
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, like that. A good rule-of-thumb (just where did that saying come from, anyway?) is to remove and clean from the outside in as far as you are going to go, then replace/repair/re-install on the way back out. The other thing you should do is get the Muir Book.
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