AWD rear caliper and rotor on my FWD

[endlessMyk]

I've got a 94 fwd tsi. My passenger side rotor was completely shot (it even split) the pads were shot, i shouldn't say that because only about half the pad was shot, and the caliper was frozen. I was hoping to reuse the caliper, but it just wasn't happening. I have my friend's 93 awd tsi in my garage that he and i are stripping/parting out and he still had his rotors (which had under 500 miles on them) and calipers. When changing them I did notice a difference in the way the fluid line came in and the way the e-brake cable attatched, but it did hook up. We bled i and now it is breaking just fine. I know I should just buy a new caliper, but I am pretty broke right now and needed something ASAP. If this is a completely bad move, someone please speak up! I do want to state that this is very temporary, pretty much just until I get paid so I can buy a new cal.

 

[Mike1992]

Yes it is a bad move, I was given a fwd caliper after my rear awd caliper froze on me. I went home installed it thinking wtf this looks a little different, but since I gave them my old one as a core i didnt really remember what the awd rear caliper looked like. I installed it and drove on it for about a month. I soon got this really weird rattle from the oppisite side rear caliper. In the end my conclusion was the ebrake cable was pulled on the fwd caliper side and wasnt giving any tension on the awd caliper side. I took both rear calipers off compared them and took them both to O'reilly's and said WTF is this shit you fockers. I then left with 2 new awd rear calipers and have been problem free.

You can make it fit yes, but I have a feeling you might have the ebrake problem I had, get an awd caliper on there asap.

 

[steve]

Why not swap the other side on too?

Steve

 

[endlessMyk]

You can make it fit yes, but I have a feeling you might have the ebrake problem I had, get an awd caliper on there asap.

I've got a fwd car, my rear caliper is from an awd.

I didn't switch both because he needed the other side.

 

[steve]

Well, get a matching set on. Either FWD or AWD. Last time I checked the AWD had a larger piston than the FWD caliper in the rear, so you don't want them mismatched even disregarding the parking brake cable.

Steve