Re: Front Brakes Query...

[Angus Holliday <trstag@domain.elided>]

At 08:26 PM 3/6/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Sorry Mike and Glenn, but the pads are definately handed, at least on the
>ones I've used. I know because my DPO forced them in the wrong way and the
>brakes would screech incredibly loudly on every stop after they warmed up a
>little. Turned them around so that the pins would fit easily and the noise
>went away. The backing plates are shaped differently and the pads are
>mounted off-center on the left and right sides.

Robert Ducker and Mike Allen, the SOC Technical Co-ordinator:- are correct
on this point, there are 2 pads of each type in a
set ...the backs are mirror image.  It has nothing to do with lining
direction.  I imagine the wrong handed ones could be forced 
in.

Walter Holliday 
Stag Specialists 
Arizona, USA
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