Gustav, 1963 VW Double Cab Truck

The brakes needed to be redone after so many years off the road.  The master cylinder was rusted & had no pressure.  So the brake system components were ordered from Wolfsburg West.

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Pedro came over for the master cylinder replacement which went in as expected.  When we filled the fluid & tested the system the two rear wheel cylinders blew-out, dripping brake fluid.  So new rear wheel cylinders & shoes were installed.  Tessa (11) helped with bleeding the brakes.

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Our first test drive to test the brakes was in the rain with no windshields.  Rear wheel cylinders & shoes were replaced, ebrake adjusted, & brake switch replaced with an NOS T3 one.

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The front brake cylinders & shoes were replaced and the backing plates were stripped & painted black.  During the reassembly one of the metal lines broke & I stripped the head on the central hard line.

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Wolfsburg West had new metal lines but they were straight & needed to be bent to the shape of the original lines.  The central line between cylinders & the left-front line to the master cylinder took about 15 minutes each to bend.  It was an easier process than I'd feared.