Parts Place Inc.

2011 Catalog

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Beetle, Thing, Super Beetle, Ghia

Complete Brake Kit

If you are going to rebuild a Beetle you might as well rebuild the entire brake system. Our complete brake job kit includes everything, start to finish.  The kit includes all new metal brake lines, all rubber brake hoses, new master cylinder, four wheel cylinders, two sets of brake shoes, two complete brake spring kits (hold downs, pull-backs and clips, etc), four new brake drums, eight adjusting stars, eight adjusting screws, two emergency brake cables,  two front wheel seals and 8 inspection plug seals.


This kit saves you $$$$ over dealer prices and when purchased together saves $ over the individual piece price at the Parts Place. We offer a drum-less kit (without the 4 new brake drums) if you are on a budget or if your drums are good. If a machine shop says your drums are oversized, remember that VW standards are very conservative, and if the car is to be only driven on Sundays by knowledgeable concerned drivers, and you can keep new full depth shoes on the car "some people" say you can use a little "out of spec" drums.


Complete Kit-Super Beetle ‘71-79


#SN5491 . .  . . .$339.95


Drum-less Kit-Super Beetle ‘71-79

#SN5492 . .  . . .$259.95


Standard Beetle ‘68-77

#SN12445 . . . . . .$359.95


Drum-less Kit-Std Beetle ‘68-77

#SN5493 . . . . . .$249.95


Kits are available for all earlier Beetles at the  similar savings; just ask! Kits for Ghia, Bus, Type III, Type IV and Thing are also available at comparable prices...


Kits are sold at discount prices far below individual price. Therefore they are returnable only as complete kits. Individual parts, of course, are guaranteed but not returnable.






This makes a brake job almost FUN!


VW Brake Bleeder Wrench

7mm and 11mm Hex openings. These help you from rounding off the bleeder nuts and lines.

 #SN13683 . . . . . . . .$13.95

NO DEPOSIT. NO HASSLE. HIGHEST QUALITY!

Beetle Brake Shoes

Brake shoes are sold in sets of four shoes which do either both front wheels or both rear wheels. All brake shoe sets are sold outright.

Brake Drums


Brake drums can last a long time and do not have to be replaced with each brake job.  But after 30 years maybe its time for new drums! Inspect the braking surface of the drum for deep scratches, if there are none then just scratch up the brake surface with VERY rough sandpaper. The purpose is to clean them up and take off the glaze and any hard rust ridge which might prevent the drum from being installed over the new shoes.


Excess rust and scale can be removed by tapping the drum with a hammer.


Of special note, the spline shafts of Beetle rear drums sometimes strip out because the big nut is not tightened enough.  The nut is to be torqued to approximately 300 foot pounds; if one side is loose check the other side.


You do not need a wheel puller to remove any Volkswagen drums or brake disc any year from 1960-94.



Front

Parts Place carries excellent new brake drums. We have listed only new drums but we have some excellent used brake drums available, call. SPECIFY front or rear, year and type, and NEW or RECYCLED.


Beetle Front 1966-67 5 bolt hole

#SN1884 . . . . . .$49.95


Beetle front 1968-77 (not Super)

#SN1881 . . . . . .$39.95


Super Beetle front 1971-79

#SN1883 . . . . . .$39.95


Front brake disc, Ghia 1965-74, Type III

#SN1900 . . .. . .$44.95


Thing Brake Drums ‘73-74

#SN17177 . . . . . .$55.00


Rear

Beetle brake rear drums (5 bolt) 1960-67

 #SN2135 . . . . . . . .$59.95

Beetle, Ghia rear brake drums (4 bolt) 1968-79

 #SN2136 . . . . . . . .$39.99

Thing rear drums 1973-74

 #SN2138 . . . . . . . .$129.95


Special 5-bolt rear drums for wide brake shoes for dune Buggies that like to stop. These are impossible to find used.  If you go to the sand dunes all the guys that get to the top first use five bolt brake drums because the extra bolt helps keep the wheels on and the big drums help stop the thing.

#SN2140 . . . . . . . .$109.95

Brake Shoe Sets

Front - All Bug & Thing

 1958-64 #SN2216 . . .$29.80

 1966-77 Standard #SN2225 . . .$19.95

 1971-79 Super #SN2217 . . .$18.95


Rear - All Bug & Ghia

 1958-64 #SN2224 . . .$25.95

 1965-67 #SN2226 . . .$22.95

 1965-79 #SN2225 . . .$19.95

[A] Axle Nut

Beetle 1960-79 (takes 36mm socket)

 #SN2120 . . . . . . . .$8.50

Bus 1968-79, Vanagon (takes 46mm)

 #SN2119 . . . . . . . .$6.95


Special Tool to take off nut on rear axle, Bug & Bus. Guaranteed to do it every time even if it was installed by a 800# gorilla. Just remove the cotter pin, put tool on have your buddy press down with a breaker bar while you strike the tool with a ten pound hammer.

[B] Knock Off Tool for Axle Nuts

Beetle  36mm

 #SN3493 . . . . . . . .$9.99

Bus, Vanagon 46mm

 #SN3495 . . . . . . . .$16.95

36mm, 1/2" Drive Socket  

 #SN3479 . . . . . . . .$7.95