Hi David, I"m not sure if they're the same, but I did buy new front calipers for a W108 (70 280SE) for a reasonable price earlier this year. I think I bought genuine Mercedes. They were cheaper than I expected.
Jaime On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:47 PM, David Bruckmann via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Gang > > My 1970 220 (115010) needs front rotors and calipers. It is an early car > (66138) that uses the same calipers etc as were used on 108 and early 115 > cars. Later W115 and most W114 used vented discs and bigger calipers which > interchange to R107/W123/W126. > > Does anyone happen to know if there are significant changes that would > require me to use an updated knuckle and steering arm in order to fit the > new rotors and calipers? EPC isn't totally clear on this point, but it > seems to indicate that a bunch of stuff has to change if I stray from the > original configuration, possibly including the knuckle itself. > > I'm not hell bent on having vented discs, but it is getting tough (and > expensive) to find calipers and even discs for the older config. > > D. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > -- Jaime Kopchinski http://www.jaimekop.com/ _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
