brake install question

[eL eS]

I am installing some ebc red stuff pads on the rear and the pads are a tight fit. But if I remove the thin metal spacers the pads slid right in.

Question is should they stay or go? It has been a long time since I installed pads on an LS and I am not certain how I should proceed.

 

[SoonerLS]

Keep the shims; EBC thinks they're important enough that they'll send them to you for free if you don't have them.

If you have the pistons screwed all the way back into the caliper, the Reds must be significantly thicker than the Greens. IIRC, I had plenty of slack on the rear calipers when I installed the Greens on my EBC rotors. (Of course, I was using the Ultimax rotors, not the dimpled/slotted rotors.)

 

[97stscaddy]

Be sure your pistons are COMPLETELY retracted into the caliper bore. If they are, ditch the shims and spray the back of the pads with this stuff...

http://www.partsamerica.com/ProductDetail.aspx?MfrCode=CRC&MfrPartNumber=05017&CategoryCode=3223

 

[eL eS]

Thanks guys.


I tried like hell to install the pads with the shims but the pads would not fit with even one shim. It is a very tight fight. I did read their sight and learned about the shims but also read about how the press those plates and they state on their website that give the process they adhere to for production it is impossible to create an over sized pad.


So either they are full of BS or these pads are designed to go in skin to skin.

 

[eL eS]

Keep the shims; EBC thinks they're important enough that they'll send them to you for free if you don't have them.

If you have the pistons screwed all the way back into the caliper, the Reds must be significantly thicker than the Greens. IIRC, I had plenty of slack on the rear calipers when I installed the Greens on my EBC rotors. (Of course, I was using the Ultimax rotors, not the dimpled/slotted rotors.)

Yeah the reds are thicker than a block of old government cheese and trust me I had it when I was a kid. If these things were yellow I probably would have tried to cut a chunk before I started the install.


I used everything short of a BFH to get those pads in with the shim.