Re: Anti-squeal plates

["Brian A.Tink" <batink@domain.elided>]

George

To answer your question of the half moons, who knows, only the designer could answer your question.  Maybe it had something to do with the phase of the moon at the time!!!!


keep staggering  Brian

At 05:10 AM 2/04/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks Brian, I do understand. That's why the half moon cutout, right? Interesting, up till now I always thought they just isolated the pad from the piston, but given the shape, that makes sense.
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>On the stag, they're keyed to the brake pads, and the pads are keyed to the caliper assembly.
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>"Brian A.Tink" wrote:
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>> George
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>> Yes I have them fitted to all my triumph cars (3) cars that is.  They do come as a factory item on the cars.
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>> the important thing is that they consist of only "Halves" and the purpose is to position the pad at a slight angle to the disk.  That is the leading edge of the pad is "higher " than the back edge.
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>> I hope that this makes sense.
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>> So one has to determine the direction of the disc and place the anti squeal on the leading side of the pad.
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>> keep staggering  Brian
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>> At 08:31 PM 31/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> >I've just disassembled my front calipers on the Stag and found 4 rusty
>> >pieces that I believe are the anti-squeal plates. They're not shown in
>> >the parts book. Is anyone still using these things on their cars or do
>> >you all just use that anti squeal goop they sell at auto stores?
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>> >George Richardson
>> >The Wyvern - '57 TR3, TS15559L - http://www.merlingroupinc.com/tr3.htm
>> >The Hippogrif - '71 Stag MKI, LE8176E - soon to get a site of it's own
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>George Richardson
>The Wyvern - '57 TR3, TS15559L - http://www.merlingroupinc.com/tr3.htm
>The Hippogrif - '71 Stag MKI, LE8176E - soon to get a site of it's own
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