..................yes into sierra rear calipers!!

I took the them apart oooohhhh about two years ago and bugger me i've forgotten and can' seem to work it out

cheers

Gary

Sure you need to wind the pistons back in with a gadget but might have dreamt that as been a wee while since had to do it myself...

pistons are fully wound back can't figure out how the pads fit + spacer thingy

"...+ spacer thingy" ???

Wind the piston all the way in, Put the pads in the carrier. Fit the caliper and bolt on. Pump the pistons out with the foot brake (don't pull the handbrake first; It'll knacker the adjuster).

adrian

They are often a tight fit to get between the caliper and carrier especially if pads are new. I had to file a small part off the leading edge to assist assembly.

Steve

my be i am being daft......... i have fitted loads of pads before but it seems with these that there is nothing holding them in place .

where do the springs on the top of the pads go??

what stops them from falling down??

I can't get to the rear Sierra on mine before work this morning, but I can say that it sounds like you're missing something or have the wrong pads? Spring thing just sits in the top of the caliper minding its own business, there's little springs on the pads that but up against that. The shape of the caliper retains the pads... hence my earlier comment.
I've only recently replaced the one's on the sprinting Westfield (the pads had cracked and burnt), winding the pistons back with a tool. Pads were TRW, Ford Scorpio 7/91 onwards GDB 472.
Like the guys said, DON'T operate the handbrake during installation.

the pads fit in to the caliper carrier, then the caliper bolts to teh carrier - in the process, it compresses the springs on the top of the pads which holds it in place.

carrier over disc ( ignore the fact its vented )



with pads in

FANTASTIC FANTASTIC

Now it is all easy

Thank you

Thank you

and Once again Fantastic

cheers

Gary

sorry one more question

where can you get the circlular springy things that hold the disc on??

gary

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Originally posted by plantman
sorry one more question

where can you get the circlular springy things that hold the disc on??

gary

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Hand brake cable needs to be full slack before you can wind/push back the piston. Quite a few people have had the self adjuster units in calipers ruined by not doing this.

Let the hanbrake off and slacken the cable adjuster back until the little levers on the caliper can go all the way back against their stops --- if you don't the pistons won't wind back and if you try to force them back with the special press tool the self-adjuster nut thing inside the caliper breaks up.

After fitting the pads pump the self-adjusters up using a few pushes of the brake pedal before tensioning the brake cable --- leave some slack the handbrake should bight fully at about 50% its travel.

[Edited on 11/8/08 by britishtrident]