Good Morning Gang

I’m so glad this subject came up. I recently replaced all the wires on The Penny Marie. I installed LED brake lights and they work fine so far. However, she sat in the garage for a while and though I started her weekly, I didn’t drive her for a while. Since I’ve been driving her daily with only the brake lights, I’ve developed a…[Read more]

Wow! This is a pretty ambitious project. I look forward to following your build!

Not sure why your pictures didn’t link. I was able to copy the links and open them directly, so it’s not a security thing with the forum. And usually, linking to pictures is the easiest way to get them into a post.

Hope you don’t mind Tom, but here is a link to…[Read more]

Wow! This is a pretty ambitious project. I look forward to following your build!

Not sure why your pictures didn’t link. I was able to copy the links and open them directly, so it’s not a security thing with the forum. And usually, linking to pictures is the easiest way to get them into a post.

Hope you don’t mind Tom, but here is a link to…[Read more]

Wow! This is a pretty ambitious project. I look forward to following your build!

Not sure why your pictures didn’t link. I was able to copy the links and open them directly, so it’s not a security thing with the forum. And usually, linking to pictures is the easiest way to get them into a post.

Hope you don’t mind Tom, but here is a link to…[Read more]

Food for thought.

I’ve loaded my hood compartment with so much stuff, I worry about the reservoir getting jostled by loose tools and container boxes. Of course it wouldn’t take much to enclose with a little protective shield either, just thinking about those short lengths of blue hose being possibly older than 32 years.

TheSamba site talks about this in there forums and they mentioned the MC sometimes leaking into the inside of the tunnel. One would never notice it unless it leaked out the hole in the bottom tunnel plate and that would drip on the road while driving. My dual brake MC is leaking at the top where the two hoses from the reservoir connect. I’m…[Read more]

I don’t know about anyone else, but your pic didn’t come through.

Anyway, good luck with your project. Keep us pic’d and posted.

Only sonic warning I have is from one of my truck brakes, and it’s more like a dog whistle. No squeal yet from braking, but been through that before so I don’t trust sounds to warn me when they don’t always do so.

No way of knowing if low pressure was ever a factor here since first thing I did was refill brake fluid. Those wire connectors were…[Read more]

Somewhere during the process of changing my rear brake cylinders, the master cylinder, rear shoes and installing discs on the front, I must have misplaced my sonic warning – it no longer functions.  But, I have noticed that if my head tilts slightly forward when driving, it usually means that my brakes are working.

A note on the pressure…[Read more]

According to my research — and what my mechanic told me — the brake light switches in old VWs are pressure-operated.  When they get old, they tend to go bad and either fail or require an inordinate amount of pressure to operate.  If you were able to get yours to work with a reasonable amount of pressure, that’s fantastic.  If they work but yo…[Read more]

Thanks for all the information. I did find “4Jx15″ stamped on the rim. I guess that means it’s a 4” rim and the 205s are way to wide for them.

Glad you caught it all before something bad happened.

Old cars – check everything often!

I second Roy and John’s comments.

For stock VW rims on a TDr, 165/15s

Any garage with a wheel balancer can tell you the width of the wheel without dismounting the tire. There is a gauge used so you can set up the machine for correct balancing. Takes two seconds.

Royal is absolutely correct about “equivalency” and the consequences of the wrong profile.  I was only trying to address the OP’s question about determining the width of the rim that the 205/60s are mounted on.  The OP said he was assuming that because the 205/60s were wider than the 165/15s, they must be on a different (i.e., wider) rim.  Th…[Read more]

What does it mean to say they are equivalent?  Not much, and it is very misleading.  A 205 tire has a cross section width of 205mm as compared to a 165(mm) tire.  It is 40mm wider, at its widest.  What the tire rack chart is showing is that each of these tires has about the same outer diameter, and would give about the same speed for a given rpm…[Read more]

What does it mean to say they are equivalent?  Not much, and it is very misleading.  A 205 tire has a cross section width of 205mm as compared to a 165(mm) tire.  It is 40mm wider, at its widest.  What the tire rack chart is showing is that each of these tires has about the same outer diameter, and would give about the same speed for a given rpm…[Read more]

What does it mean to say they are equivalent?  Not much, and it is very misleading.  A 205 tire has a cross section width of 205mm as compared to a 165(mm) tire.  It is 40mm wider, at its widest.  What the tire rack chart is showing is that each of these tires has about the same outer diameter, and would give about the same speed for a given rpm…[Read more]