HELP! Brake pads!

[t3ase]

How the hell do you get that M or U shaped clip back in the caliper after the brake pads are reinstalled?

 

[t3ase]

...

 

[mp3girly]

...you're just putting your brake pads back on, right?

I've done a lot of brake pad changes.. at least one of them on my car. ...what's the problem?

 

[t3ase]

I'm putting the caliper back on since I'm done painting it.

Anyway, I pul the metal clips on that hold the pads, then I put the pads themselves in. There's also a U or W shaped "spring" that clips in on the pads, but I cannot get it back in.

Any ideas?

 

[t3ase]

Service manual refers to it as a "M-spring"

 

[mp3girly]

The ones with the little bitty hooks on the end, that go on top of the shims?

 

[t3ase]

Yeah

 

[t3ase]

If you help me with this, I'm coming to Pasadena and bringing you back to Austin with me.

 

[mp3girly]

rofl. Well. It's hard to remember, but, I don't think they were too important.. You just squeezed 'em and they clipped in over the shim. I don't know if it'd be worth pulling the caliper off and putting them back in.. you might want to get a second opinion though.

 

[mp3girly]

Depends on whether or not your wheels are back on yet.

 

[t3ase]

I'd rather not leave parts out of my brakes, though. Why is the service manual no help whatsoever?

 

[mp3girly]

Because they're that unimportant?

 

[mp3girly]

Anyway, are your wheels back on yet?

 

[t3ase]

Why, am I coming to Pasadena?

 

[mp3girly]

I'M JUST WONDERING

Gauging how hard it'll be to put them back on.
If your wheels aren't on yet, you can just flip the caliper open and badda-bing, badda-boom, springs are in just like that.

 

[t3ase]

wait. the caliper comes apart?

 

[mp3girly]

You know it just flips up, right? I forget what you have to take off.. but yeah.. the top of the caliper will just open.

 

[mp3girly]

That's for easy brake pad changing.

This has become a conversation.. maybe I should just AIM you. Haha.

 

[t3ase]

without having to bleed the brakes n stuff?

 

[t3ase]

aim: txmixer