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brake upgrade



Visited the local U-Pull-It (no pun intended) junkyard this AM and came
away with the following parts:

4 brake calipers, Girling double piston for front, 38mm single piston for
rear, all four brake discs, caliper carriers and bolts, pressure
accumulator (bomb), and the brake compensator, all out of a 1989 100 with
the flush door handles.

NOW: I want to put all these parts onto my 1986 5000S. The brake discs are
four-bolt, so I won't have to change the hubs and wheels, and I did get the
caliper carriers.

Approximate prices for rebuild kits and pads?

Questions: What brake hoses do I use (originals? new ones?
stainless/braided, what specifications/dimensions)?

Is the 1989 100 bomb the same as the 1986 5000 bomb? The part number in the
book is the same, but the last letter is different: C for 86, H for 89.
Different flavor pentosin? Does it matter which?

Parking brake cables also have a different final letter with same part
number. Any problems there?

Also got a pile of little rubber and electrical parts, etc. Total cost was
a whopping $92.18 (About GBP60 - Hi Phil!)

Car had an engine fire, has automatic, problem is that at this self-service
junkyard, people remove the parts they need using a chainsaw and dynamite -
I watched a guy break a window (on a Dorf) to reach inside the car because
he was too lazy to walk around the other side of it!

Anything else I REALLY ought to get before the buzzards nuke the rest of
it? (Like maybe the 2-pc exhaust manifold? Looks like a b*tch to remove,
and it is now thoroughly "heat treated".) 

Best Regards,

Mike Arman