back brake pads destroyed!!

[budd]

Very interesting to hear what you have found. Not a brilliant idea though if you can reassemble the caliper out of alignment IMHO.

As you say though, keep an eye on it,

Chris.

the 2 sides of the caliper are sealed with O rings and held together with M8 bolts but there are no locating pins so you get a small amount of free play around the bolts holes which allows it to be assembled slightly out of alignment, like I said it's my fault for not checking the pad retaining pin went through straight/square and pads were all free and not under any pressure. I think in the future I'll reassemble it all with the pins, pads etc and then release the main bolts the 2 halfs should then align themselves, once I'm happy they can torqued up to the required value, at the end of the day you it's a lesson learn'd.

[sirch345]

Very interesting to hear what you have found. Not a brilliant idea though if you can reassemble the caliper out of alignment IMHO.

As you say though, keep an eye on it,

Chris.

the 2 sides of the caliper are sealed with O rings and held together with M8 bolts but there are no locating pins so you get a small amount of free play around the bolts holes which allows it to be assembled slightly out of alignment, like I said it's my fault for not checking the pad retaining pin went through straight/square and pads were all free and not under any pressure. I think in the future I'll reassemble it all with the pins, pads etc and then release the main bolts the 2 halfs should then align themselves, once I'm happy they can torqued up to the required value, at the end of the day you it's a lesson learn'd.

Good to know about things like this, certainly something I'll be watching out for on the next brake caliper service I do where this could happen.

Chris.