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Old 09-10-2012, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Zulfiqar View Post
It takes a grand total of 5 minutes to unmount the rear wheel/drum from that car and about 5 more minutes to unbolt any brake hardware. assume it takes 20 minutes to put it back.

I had such a car and I did the rear brakes in the above time, while sitting on my workchair and the car on jackstands. Even replacing the bearings is easy as chips - and when removing the drum I never even bothered to remove lug bolts, undo the cotter pin remove castle nut and pull wheel out complete with drum attached. Replace bearings at your ease too.

4 HOURS??? wow they had to take naps while doing such work?

right? he showed me 4 hours and I just stood there for a while wondering what in the hell.

I think they arrived at that number adding up the book time for everything in the rear brake assembly done separately. Only way I can think of they came up with 4 hours.

It took me half that time to fully install the 85 engine for petes sake. these old vws aren't called lego cars for nothing
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