2003 new pads for my Hemi 4x4 QC
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2003 new pads for my Hemi 4x4 QC
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me?
Just bought some replacement front and rear EBC Greenstuff 6000 series pads for my 03 Hemi.
The front pads went in great.
I have a BIG problem with the rear pads however.
On trying to fit these pads, there is no way that they can be fitted, even when the brake piston is pushed fully home into the caliper/carrier.
The pads themselves, on the non friction side, have the standard antisqueel shim plate fitted with two small round 3mmx3mm diameter and high pegs in the center.
The pads were too thick with these pegs to fit into the carrier and also allow the rotor to spin in between them, so I took a file and filed the pegs down flush to the shim plate.
This allowed me to fit the pads successfully.
I e-mailed my supplier and explained my difficulties in the fitting of these pads.
He got in back in touch with the manufacturer who has now come back and said, there was a defect in these batches of pads.
What's happened, is the manufacturer has put too much friction material onto the pads and this of course, has made them too thick and big to fit.
They have telephoned me back saying because I have now filed off what the manufacturers are calling "locating pins" from the back of the pads, the pads could fly out of the back of the carrier and cause a "catastrophic accident".[sm=wtf.gif]
Their words. !!!!!!
My original pads have very small, what look like rivets 1/2 mm tall x 3mm diameter to attach the shim plates to them but they are no where near the size of these "Greenstuff" pegs and do not, for all the world, look like they would locate in anything to stop anything flying out..............
What gives.....will I be safe.........?
I thought that by hooking the pads with there locating tags at either end of them into the carrier, and then bolting everything back up, I would be OK?
Any and all experienced help would be appreciated.
Al.
Just bought some replacement front and rear EBC Greenstuff 6000 series pads for my 03 Hemi.
The front pads went in great.
I have a BIG problem with the rear pads however.
On trying to fit these pads, there is no way that they can be fitted, even when the brake piston is pushed fully home into the caliper/carrier.
The pads themselves, on the non friction side, have the standard antisqueel shim plate fitted with two small round 3mmx3mm diameter and high pegs in the center.
The pads were too thick with these pegs to fit into the carrier and also allow the rotor to spin in between them, so I took a file and filed the pegs down flush to the shim plate.
This allowed me to fit the pads successfully.
I e-mailed my supplier and explained my difficulties in the fitting of these pads.
He got in back in touch with the manufacturer who has now come back and said, there was a defect in these batches of pads.
What's happened, is the manufacturer has put too much friction material onto the pads and this of course, has made them too thick and big to fit.
They have telephoned me back saying because I have now filed off what the manufacturers are calling "locating pins" from the back of the pads, the pads could fly out of the back of the carrier and cause a "catastrophic accident".[sm=wtf.gif]
Their words. !!!!!!
My original pads have very small, what look like rivets 1/2 mm tall x 3mm diameter to attach the shim plates to them but they are no where near the size of these "Greenstuff" pegs and do not, for all the world, look like they would locate in anything to stop anything flying out..............
What gives.....will I be safe.........?
I thought that by hooking the pads with there locating tags at either end of them into the carrier, and then bolting everything back up, I would be OK?
Any and all experienced help would be appreciated.
Al.