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Re: Disc brake gurus?
Posted by kansas (more from kansas) on Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:50:12
In Reply to: Disc brake gurus?, Gary Piland, Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:47:37
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I think the spring plates that bear on the back edges of the pads and are in turn held by the cotter pins behind them are important to positioning the pads, as Spiv mentioned. I assume you have them, don't see how things would ever work right without them. However, I have seen one 95 on which one pad could slip out of position forward, ie in the direction of wheel rotation, due to wear on the edge or corner of the piece of the caliper frame (Piece #3 fig 10.18 p. 137 of my Haynes manual, there named "support bracket; or fig 10:13, p. 113, in the Autobooks manual) that should hold the pad from moving. This sounds like it might be your problem. A tad difficult to describe, but if you look on your car I think it will be plain. This piece could be replaced, or welded with a hard-face rod and ground/filed back to correct shape.
I think that new pads will only fit the right way so doubt that you got them on the wrong sides. New cotter pins of suitable length and diameter may be had at a fastener specialist, just check "Fasteners-Industrial" in the yellow pages. They won't have the flattened heads of the original style, just regular roundy cotter pins, but will work fine.
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