'62 Beetle backing plates-Adjuster wheel sprring clip

Aug 17, 2008 1 Replies

O'K., so I finally got the parts & some good weather to start on fixing the brakes & I find what may have been causing the thing to lock up- on the drivers side one of the spring clips that keeps the adjuster from spinning on its own is bent out of place, on the other side the *!#% things are missing completely.



Did I mention we had the brakes "Professionally" (*!#%!!!) rebuilt last year?



It doesn't look like replacement plates are available so I'm wondering if any of you have run into this before & what you did for a fix?



Thanks,



H.


By who? If it wasn't an aircooled VW shop staffed by competent folks, chances are your brakes were not done correctly.

You can buy the spring for the backing plate as a replacement component. Hopefully the backing plate itself is in decent condition.

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Chris

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