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I do not ever remember re-greasing the caliper pins on my old Honda so I got around to doing it weeks ago. The right side definitely needed a bit, and all went well except for two things.
When I re-assembled, I noticed a lot of scraping noises from that side, and I also noticed when I tried to turn the tire by hand it seemed far too tight to do so.
I finally got around to re-working on it today. I had a theory that part of the scraping was due to the rusting brake shield. I removed it today (it fell apart in pieces), and sure enough, no more scraping.
After taking off the caliper, I noticed the wheel turned much more easily. So I did some sandpapering on the metal plates that go over the break pad. Still, things were far too tight on that wheel. I notice that the side of the pad that goes behind the disc actually had two metal sheets/covers. So I removed the outer one, and re-assembled. Things rotate far better now, so I am leaving it as that.
Now the question remains, the sheet/cover that you see here in the photo, is it mandator to be on that brake pad? I assume there is reason there is two of these on the inner pad.
And the next question, that little broken bracket piece you see, it broke off somehow when removing the pad. I noticed the other day when I took off a pad from the other wheel, the clip broke off too. Is that really necessary?
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Re: Caliper/Brake tightness
Probably just needed to push the pston further in.
the little clip is the brake squealer, not really needed. The bigger pieceis like an anti rattle pad, it's not necessary for the brakes to work, just quiets things down
I was a bit worried that the missing sheet may cause an inbalance of a mm or two. But after thinking on it, I am (assuming) that there is equal pressure on both front tires when you hit the bakes, so even if you change the amount of gap on the caliper of one wheel, it should still be ok since breaking (in theory?) should put same breaking pressure on both wheels. I hope.
