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Topic: 5 lug rear brakes

I have a question for those of you who know about the older beetles,
as I have always had the newer 4 lug variety. I just bought a sand
rail, and it has a swing axel with 5 lug drums on the rear. I want
to buy new shoes, drums, wheel cylinders, and hardware kits for it,
but I have no idea what year car it came from. It is registered as
a 63 VW Dunebuggy, but how can I make sure to get the right parts?
Are all the rear brakes from the early 60's the same?? Any help you
could give me would be greatly appreciated!!!

Andrew Z. Luder
1972 Beetle
1974 Baja Beetle
1963? Sandrail

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Re: 5 lug rear brakes

Andrew: Looking at the now-classic "Rocky Mountain Motorworks"
catalog breakout, for Front brakes it appears that 1958 thru 1964
were the same and 1965 thru 1978 (non-super beetle) were the same.
For rear brakes, the year ranges are 1958 thru 1964; 1965 thru 1967;
and 1968 thru 1979. Does this help? How so. Clancy

Andrew Z. Luder wrote:
>
> I have a question for those of you who know about the older beetles,
> as I have always had the newer 4 lug variety. I just bought a sand
> rail, and it has a swing axel with 5 lug drums on the rear. I want
> to buy new shoes, drums, wheel cylinders, and hardware kits for it,
> but I have no idea what year car it came from. It is registered as
> a 63 VW Dunebuggy, but how can I make sure to get the right parts?
> Are all the rear brakes from the early 60's the same?? Any help you
> could give me would be greatly appreciated!!!
>
> Andrew Z. Luder
> 1972 Beetle
> 1974 Baja Beetle
> 1963? Sandrail
>

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Re: 5 lug rear brakes

Clancy wrote:
>
> Andrew: Looking at the now-classic "Rocky Mountain Motorworks"
> catalog breakout, for Front brakes it appears that 1958 thru 1964
> were the same and 1965 thru 1978 (non-super beetle) were the same.
> For rear brakes, the year ranges are 1958 thru 1964; 1965 thru 1967;
> and 1968 thru 1979. Does this help? How so. Clancy
>
> Andrew Z. Luder wrote:
>>
>> I have a question for those of you who know about the older beetles,
>> as I have always had the newer 4 lug variety. I just bought a sand
>> rail, and it has a swing axel with 5 lug drums on the rear. I want
>> to buy new shoes, drums, wheel cylinders, and hardware kits for it,
>> but I have no idea what year car it came from. It is registered as
>> a 63 VW Dunebuggy, but how can I make sure to get the right parts?
>> Are all the rear brakes from the early 60's the same?? Any help you
>> could give me would be greatly appreciated!!!
>>
>> Andrew Z. Luder
>> 1972 Beetle
>> 1974 Baja Beetle
>> 1963? Sandrail
>>
>
>

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Re: 5 lug rear brakes

Thanks, that's the info I needed


Clancy wrote:
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> Clancy wrote:
>>
>> Andrew: Looking at the now-classic "Rocky Mountain Motorworks"
>> catalog breakout, for Front brakes it appears that 1958 thru 1964
>> were the same and 1965 thru 1978 (non-super beetle) were the same.
>> For rear brakes, the year ranges are 1958 thru 1964; 1965 thru 1967;
>> and 1968 thru 1979. Does this help? How so. Clancy
>>
>> Andrew Z. Luder wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a question for those of you who know about the older beetles,
>>> as I have always had the newer 4 lug variety. I just bought a sand
>>> rail, and it has a swing axel with 5 lug drums on the rear. I want
>>> to buy new shoes, drums, wheel cylinders, and hardware kits for it,
>>> but I have no idea what year car it came from. It is registered as
>>> a 63 VW Dunebuggy, but how can I make sure to get the right parts?
>>> Are all the rear brakes from the early 60's the same?? Any help you
>>> could give me would be greatly appreciated!!!
>>>
>>> Andrew Z. Luder
>>> 1972 Beetle
>>> 1974 Baja Beetle
>>> 1963? Sandrail
>>>
>>
>>
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