[Fot] Brake pads don't fit

[Tony Drews]

It's not uncommon to have to shim the caliper to center it up.  For 
racing, I recommend Carbotech, AX6 compound (www.ctbrakes.com ).  We 
didn't like the Hawke Blue's much - needed warmup or they locked 
easily, were hard on the rotors and left little bits of molten rotor 
stuck in the paint of the wheel.

Cheers, Tony

At 11:32 AM 5/23/2013, davehogye wrote:
>Hello friends,
>I've been driving my TR3 on the street with Hawk blue pads and have 
>put over 500 miles on them now. They make a mess of dust all over 
>and they've been squealing like crazy driving around town between 
>stops sometimes. I ordered a set of performance street pads from 
>Moss and the outside pad will not fit in the caliper. It's obvious 
>that the rotor is not centered in the caliper, but the Hawk pads 
>went in no problem, so I hadn't noticed the offset until trying to 
>fit other pads. I got another set of street pads, thinking the Moss 
>pads where fat and same problem.
>I have TR3 uprights, TR4A-TR6 caliper carriers and new, not 
>remanufactured, calipers from BPNorthwest and new aluminum hubs. I 
>called BPN thinking the caliper might be the problem and they have 
>had no other calls on this. Perhaps the hub dimensions are off. I 
>guess I'll have to shave the outside pads to fit them, but has 
>anyone else come across this issue. I'll be measuring things and 
>hopefully find out what's going on, but it looks like at least .050" 
>will have to come off the pad.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
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