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YOUR RESEARCHbrake help please
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it seems to me one of the past owner idiots upgraded to bigger calipers (and rotors?) but used the old pins/springs.
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i should also add that we didnt leave it as is - we used spare pins from my '06 C2
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i'm a 997 owner but was helping a friend with brakes on his recently purchased '99 C2. he is the 4th owner. something is not right with the front brakes.
the retaining linchpins dont go all the way thru the holes in the caliper. they fall a couple mm's short. altho they
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reach thru the retaining hole on the outside pad, technically it would have been possible for that outside pad to fly out since the end of the pin is not secure thru the outside caliper hole. make sense? also, the springs look as if theyre not wide enough either, and are resting not on the pad backing as they should but on the pad material itself.
my question is what size, width, length, etc brake calipers and rotors were OEM on the 99 C2? it seems to me one of the past owner idiots upgraded to bigger calipers (and rotors?) but used the old pins/springs.
thanks for any help...
i should also add that we didnt leave it as is - we used spare pins from my '06 C2
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brakes. they fit perfectly which makes me think that his car had an upgrade somewhere along the line.
didnt even think about that angle. altho i didnt remove the rear pins, upon brief visual ispec, they looked flush/seated properly. however i will tell my bud to give it another look and see.
