Brake Pin "Positioners"

[TopBanana72]

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]

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

 

[R/T Boy 67]

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]

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]

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

 

[Cranky]

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

 

[hemi71x]

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]

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