Itinerant Air-Cooled

^ get the shims from Ken at the BusCo. He has stacks of them...

Amskeptic wrote: Look in the rectangular window of the calipers to see how close the pad backing plates (where the horizontal pins go through) are to the disk. 2mm is the wear limit.
Colin

I'm psyching myself up to replace the pads on my 75 bus and what has got me concerned are these pins. Do I simply take a punch and knock them out? If I PB Blast them, will they stay in place after I put them back in? They look like they pretty comfortable/content where they sit right now.

Yes, you have to take the pins out. Just use a punch and hammer to remove them.

Ratwell has a good step by step:

http://www.ratwell.com/technical/BrakeJob.html

Manfred wrote:Yes, you have to take the pins out. Just you a punch and hammer to remove them.

Ratwell has a good step by step:

http://www.ratwell.com/technical/BrakeJob.html

Thanks, I didn't think to search Ratwell.