{"id":60,"date":"2013-04-01T08:29:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T06:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/puma\/?p=60"},"modified":"2024-01-14T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T08:04:31","slug":"brakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puma.retro.co.za\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Brakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Front brakes are Golf 1 calipers, mounted on a bracket I bought from the back of Car Magazine<\/a> years ago.<\/p>\n

The anti-rattle clips go in like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I had a hard time fitting the brake pads until I wheeled the Puma out into bright sunlight to have a close look. The bracket was just<\/em> interfering with the inner pad. Quick to fix if you have an angle grinder.<\/p>\n

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Sorted.<\/p>\n

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I tried quite a few ways of routing the flexible brake lines (ISTR I had them especially made up? They might be a bit long) from the calipers to the chassis. This worked out best in terms of clearance and not rubbing against too many things.<\/p>\n

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I’m using a VW Golf II master cylinder<\/a>.\u00a0 It answers to part numbers 191611019, H2098602, 53754013283 and 139085<\/a>. My options were to either shorten the pushrod from the brake pedal, or to space the MC further towards the front of the car than the original cylinder, I went with the latter using pieces of threaded rod. I am sort of concerned about the whole thing flexing up and down, but I think the force is mostly in line with the bore and I must say, the cylinder seems quite stable.<\/p>\n

Feeding the master cylinder is going to be a bit tricky I think. Beetle dual master cylinders have input grommets of (OD\/ID) 24\/11mm or 18\/7mm, but the Golf input is 22\/12mm (grommet part number 357611817<\/a>). There are adaptors to connect a flex hose to the Beetle cylinder<\/a>, but I don’t think anything like that exists for the Golf. And I don’t really want my brake fluid reservoir under the fuel tank where I can’t get at it (although as far as I know the Golf reservoir has a low fluid warning, I can wire that up to the dashboard and pretty much forget about it. And it is sort of accessible by removing the wheel).<\/p>\n