[DeTomaso] Techno question: stock rear brake shims

Charles Engles cengles at cox.net
Thu Jan 30 20:15:51 EST 2020


Dear Mike, Doug and Julian,

               Thanks for the help.  The brake install is back on track.  

                                 Warmest regards, Chuck Engles



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Drew [mailto:MikeLDrew at aol.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:15 PM
To: Charles Engles
Cc: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Techno question: stock rear brake shims

Chuck,

Two things:

1). Front and rear caliper bolt spacing is different. You can't put a front
anything on the rear. 

2). Rear calipers don't have shims. :)

Both front and rear have locking tabs which go immediately underneath the
head of the mounting bolts, but they are not shims. They have tabs which are
bent up to prevent bolt rotation. Front calipers also have shims between
caliper and upright which spaces the caliper inboard by the thickness of the
shim. 

The caliper locking tabs for the GT5 (which has different calipers with
different bolt spacing for the different spindles/rear uprights) are very
cheap. However the ones for the early cars are obscenely expensive for what
they are. 

Look at Wilkinson's website for exploded drawings and associated parts
descriptions with eye-watering prices for the locking tabs....

Mike

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 30, 2020, at 15:12, Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>   Dear Forum,
> 
> 
>                 An Oklahoma Pantera owner bought a set of re-built brakes
>   from one of our vendors, who is gone until next week.  The problem is
>   that the stock shims for the rear calipers were not shipped.   The dumb
>   question is whether the front shims will fit the rear calipers.  We do
>   have an extra set of front shims, but I do not think that they'll
>   fit.   Anyone with actual knowledge of this bit of stock brake trivia??
> 
> 
>                                  Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
> 
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