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I haven brembos on my car and I don’t remember doing anything to the pins other than knocking the filth off of them. I rebuilt the fronts last fall just because it had been years since they had been touched. I cleaned them up and put a little grease where the pads contact the caliper and a little grease where the pistons contact the pads.
With brembos reuse the OEM shims and make sure they are orientated properly. On mine there’s arrows punched out of the shims that point in the direction of normal wheel rotation.
What about if the new pads have there own shims? Also, my brembro brakes are on an Acura RL. Does this make a difference with shim use?
On my car the pins are retained by a plastic bushings on their inboard ends. I’ve heard that other cars with Brembo brakes may use different means of retaining the pins. Now, I’ve never heard of anyone losing a pin. But if the car we are talking about has brakes like mine a lubricated pin going into a plastic bushing seems to me like you are testing fate.
For those people not familiar with Brembo brakes they are of the fixed caliper type. No slide pins. Instead there are pistons on both sides that press on the pads. The pins we are talking about here are actually hold downs for a sorta large leaf spring that presses on and holds the pads in place.
Knock out the two pins, pick out the spring, pick out the pads and use one of the pads you just removed to lever the pistons back in place. So pad changing is simplicity itself.
i do understand how those brakes work. id install them asis but to each his own. ive done installation of those as they came and had no problems. we should start a topic like this and see the different opinions people have on this because now im curious lol
but i never suggested lubricating the hell out of the pins. just a little anti seize
[quote=”aaronac8″ post=106868]What about if the new pads have there own shims? Also, my brembro brakes are on an Acura RL. Does this make a difference with shim use?[/quote]
The entire brake assembly comes from Brembo. I don’t think it should matter much what car the brakes are on. If we are talking about the glued on shims you usually see, if you have the pistons shoved all the way back in in their bores and you have room for the OEM metal shims, I say use them. Depending on the pad material, these brakes can be noisy, sometimes very noisy, and the OEM shim seems to help with noise problems.
I looked in my car’s service manual and the only places it shows lubrication being applied is on the back of the shims and on the ends of the pads.
[quote=”barneyb” post=106888][quote=”aaronac8″ post=106868]What about if the new pads have there own shims? Also, my brembro brakes are on an Acura RL. Does this make a difference with shim use?[/quote]
The entire brake assembly comes from Brembo. I don’t think it should matter much what car the brakes are on. If we are talking about the glued on shims you usually see, if you have the pistons shoved all the way back in in their bores and you have room for the OEM metal shims, I say use them. Depending on the pad material, these brakes can be noisy, sometimes very noisy, and the OEM shim seems to help with noise problems.
I looked in my car’s service manual and the only places it shows lubrication being applied is on the back of the shims and on the ends of the pads.[/quote]
Good info…. maybe ill stop lubricating them. as for the shims, you hit the nail on the head
My car is an Evo. The STI uses the same brake but a different method of retaining the pins. So, what applies to my car maybe doesn’t apply there. Anyway, there’s a forum for the Evo and when people start discussing how they do brakes you find no two people do them the same. So, I’m not saying you are wrong only relating what I do.
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