Front Brake Calliper spacer

[Loubaruch]

As part of the recent body off I restored the front brake callipers, i.e. new pistons, seals and repaint. When first driving the car yesterday the front brakes were locked solid. On inspection today it seems that the new paint layers have altered the callipers dimensions to the extent that a shim about a third of the original is now needed to centralise the calliper on the disk, anybody else experienced this?

[phillpot]

That's a lot of paint!

think I'd be cleaning the mating surfaces and trying again, caliper needs to be 100% solid not on a bed of squidgy paint.

[Yogioes]

Not sure if this will help…
On my 2002 Chimaera there are 4mm thick spacer washers between the hub and the caliper bracket.
As far as I know, this car is standard and original.

[Loubaruch]

Thanks, my original spacers are also 4mm thick.

Philpot the strange thing is that there is little paint on the mating surfaces of the calliper,almost bare metal maybe the brake disks are a diferent size?

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[phillpot]

Loubaruch said:

Thanks, my original spacers are also 4mm thick.

Philpot the strange thing is that there is little paint on the mating surfaces of the calliper, almost bare metal maybe the brake disks are a different size?

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Ah! you didn't mention you had new discs, there are indeed two sizes, some need the spacer and other ones shouldn't need a spacer at all

[Loubaruch]

Many thanks, I did not realise that mystery solved.