Brake Pin "Positioners"

TopBanana72 · Jul 17, 2020

I finished my front end rebuild with new brake pads, rotors, etc.

These positioners are loose and rattling around. I don't remember them doing that before. Pins are torqued down properly and brakes are working fine. Any suggestions?

dadsbee · Jul 17, 2020

They get bent in as the pads wear, you need to bend them out before pin installation.

R/T Boy 67 · Jul 17, 2020

Someone please educate me on what those things do exactly. The only thing I can see is that they hold in the rubber bushings that fit into the caliper. All the reman calipers that I have used have a shoulder on both sides of the bushings to hold them in, so I have left them off. I think they did away with those things in later years.

kiwigtx · Jul 17, 2020

dadsbee said:
They get bent in as the pads wear, you need to bend them out before pin installation.

Be careful bending them, they can break.

oldbee · Jul 17, 2020

Just kinda an anti-rattle tensioner? Sorry, drum brake guy.

Cranky · Jul 17, 2020

Doesn't it depend on the 'brand' of brake you have? Thought they were more or less alignment pins?

hemi71x · Jul 19, 2020

R/T Boy 67 said:
Someone please educate me on what those things do exactly. The only thing I can see is that they hold in the rubber bushings that fit into the caliper. All the reman calipers that I have used have a shoulder on both sides of the bushings to hold them in, so I have left them off. I think they did away with those things in later years.

Ya, Ma Mopar did away with using them, in later years, on cars still using the pin type calipers.
The calipers work just as well, without them, as the the engineers, designers, within the brake department finally figured out.

Very carefully bend them back, as stated in the other reply.
But if they really are bent down, they most likely will split in two, when you do that.

TopBanana72 · Jul 19, 2020

I was able to bend them, no problem. All good now, thanks for all for the help!

Brake Pin "Positioners"

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