Re: Driving With Two Brakes

"Brent P" <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <ft6lse0130f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Nate Nagel wrote:
>>Brent P wrote:
>>> In article <mJAJj.177$iK6.70@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Neil wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The price they quoted was $110, but I don't know what that includes.
>>>
>>>
>>> It should include two wheel cylinders and at least relined shoes.
Given
>>> the price of wheel cylinders and brake shoes for my old drum braked
car
>>> that sounds like a decent price. It's nearly all parts unless 10 year
>>> old VW parts are ALOT cheaper than for a 35 year old ford.
>>>
>>
>>Maintenance parts are really cheap for older watercooled VW's.  About
>>the only car I've ever worked on that was cheaper was an old MoPar
>>A-body.  (several of them, mostly a '67 Dart and a '69 Valiant.  I miss
>>the Valiant, too bad the owner wasn't speaking to me when she decided to
>>sell it...)
>
> I saw your price list there... the rear wheel cylinder I bought for the
> mav last year cost me around $40 at Napa.... Even more than a decade ago
> when I replaced the front ones they cost me $35 each or so....
>
>

Per the message I post in a new thread ("Driving With Two Brakes - Part
Two"), it was actually $130 they quoted, and it was ONLY for the wheel
cylinders. They say they're not going to replace the brake shoes, but only
clean them (even though there's brake fluid on the outside of the brake
cylinder).