Don't know if this should go on the 996 list....but "big brakes" are found in all Porsche applications, so here goes....
Helped my friend change brake pads and do a fluid flush of his new GT3. Here's a question....when replacing the pads, we noticed that the OEM pads had an "anti-squeel" stick-on device on the backside of the backing plate....nothing unusual here. However, here is how they were built:
- for the 6 puck fronts ( for example)...there was a "sticky" for each puck, and the backside of the "sticky" had a fingered pilot shaft that fit into a recess of the puck that pushes onto the pad.
See where this is going ????.........
As you remove the pad radially outward...and the "Sticky" holds-on tight onto the pad...you can't help but to "rip" this sticky apart and the metal-fingered "pilot" remains in the puck recess......
So.....is there a better way to remove old OEM pads without destroying the "sticky" ? ( more importantly...without leaving a remnant behind in the bore of the puck ?)
Bill Verburg perhaps ....?
Wil
