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Front Brakes - Pad shims/spacers???

Postby MilkmanDan on Sat Sep 20, 2014 2:29 pm

Hi all,

I recently did my front brakes, GSL Rallysport supplied (do recommend) QFM pads and dba t2 rotors. Great combo and do recommend, 11ty times better than the standard rubbish.

I've noticed though a rattle over bumps and get a 'click' when I begin to brake, nothing loose I can find, strut bushes are good so I can only think that there maybe a shin or spacer that sits behind the pads to the caliper piston that may be casing the pads to float so to speak. Do standard brakes have this as when I changed did not pull one out?

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Re: Front Brakes - Pad shims/spacers???

Postby mattz on Sat Sep 20, 2014 3:17 pm

Yes they do......
IIRC there are two......or at least the inner or outer has two.
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Re: Front Brakes - Pad shims/spacers???

Postby MilkmanDan on Sat Sep 20, 2014 4:03 pm

mattz wrote:Yes they do......
IIRC there are two......or at least the inner or outer has two.


Interdasting, I'm guessing previous pad change they were never reinstalled.

Who is the part number guru on here?
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Re: Front Brakes - Pad shims/spacers???

Postby Homer on Sat Sep 20, 2014 4:47 pm

I replied before but must have lost wifi...

I have run the front pads without the spacers. I never had a rattle or click...from memory I had a slight squeak...very slight, from what I think was vibration but nothing like what you are saying...sounds a little strange.

I always thought they provide as much a heat shield as they do a spacer shim...
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Re: Front Brakes - Pad shims/spacers???

Postby rodeddy on Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:15 am

I still have the new shims, 4 of them, from when i Fitted DBA rotors and pads .... I used the original mitsu after cleaning them up.
I presume they all the same ..
send me a pm with your address and I'll post the 4 to you... nil cost.
cheers, Rod

MilkmanDan wrote:
mattz wrote:Yes they do......
IIRC there are two......or at least the inner or outer has two.


Interdasting, I'm guessing previous pad change they were never reinstalled.

Who is the part number guru on here?
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Re: Front Brakes - Pad shims/spacers???

Postby MilkmanDan on Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:31 am

rodeddy wrote:I still have the new shims, 4 of them, from when i Fitted DBA rotors and pads .... I used the original mitsu after cleaning them up.
I presume they all the same ..
send me a pm with your address and I'll post the 4 to you... nil cost.
cheers, Rod

MilkmanDan wrote:
mattz wrote:Yes they do......
IIRC there are two......or at least the inner or outer has two.


Interdasting, I'm guessing previous pad change they were never reinstalled.

Who is the part number guru on here?


That is one kind gesture, will do mate!
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