What size shoes does your bug wear?

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JavaG66
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What size shoes does your bug wear?

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Hi folks,
Does your '66 have narrow brake shoes on the rear? Mine does. The front has wider ones, and the first set I got for the rear- supposedly for a '66- are wide also; but they wouldn't go on. I had to order shoes for a older bug to get them to go on. What is going on?
Thanks,

Hal
JavaG66
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Shoe Sizes

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I just got a Bentley manual to complement Muir's work. According to Bentley, the front shoes are 40mm wide, and the rear are 30mm wide. The '67s had the same size front & rear. But unless you are one of the fortunate ones to have a compleatly original bug, it can sometimes be hard to tell just what has been swapped out from a different year.
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