Rear brake pads

[dgibson2004]

Hi

Are Rev 2/3 rear brake pads thinner than rev 1 pads?

I am just in the process of changing the rear break pads.
I have ordered the pads from brakes international and came to fit them today. All was going well till I tried to put the calliper back over the disc. With the new pads in the calliper hasn't got enough room for the lower calliper bolt to clear hole to holder that holds the pads in place.

It looks like the pads are about 5mm ish too thick.

Hope the above makes sense? If not will get a pic tomorrow.

thanks

Dom

[rsand85]

you need to screw the pistons back into the calipers

[dgibson2004]

Hi

The piston is screwed back into the caliper
(for anyone doing this save yourself hours of frustration and buy a caliper winding tool, saves so much time and skin from your knuckles)

I will have to get a picture it looks as if the pad facing out towards the road is too thick and stopping the caliper from pushing far enough backwards to allow the bolt to fit into the caliper frame.

Will get a pic if I dont sort it tomorrow.

Thanks

[rsand85]

ah my bad sorry didnt mean to make it sound like i thought you were thick aye the brake tool is much handy!!it does sound like a strange one the sliders free enough??

[dgibson2004]

No worries mate didn't take it that way any way so all good. Although it did take me 10 mins of trying to pull the calliper up to realise i had left the hand break on


Yeah it seems strange to me too. Wouldn't rule out me doing something wrong but have changed pads on a mr2 a few times before with no problems.

Will post update tomorrow.

Thanks

[rsand85]

ha ha done that before

[ryan]

Have you renewed the caliper? Reason I ask is that Brakes international sent a recon one to him and he couldnt get the pad in, turns out they boxed a rev 1 caliper into a rev2+ box...

[dgibson2004]

No just ordered the pads from them.

The pads fit size wise it's just the thickness that seems wrong. It's probably something I am doing wrong but to be honest there is not much to changing the brakes.

So much for it being a quick job.

[dgibson2004]

Brakes all sorted. Looks like the problem was me

Tried to put old pads back on and hit the same problem, so it was definatey something I was doing wrong.

I put the new pads back in and push the caliper pretty hard and it suddenly slipped over the rotor bracket allowing me to put the bolt in.

Other side done in 10 mins, thanks for peoples help on this.