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Those are Ate' type brakes, like the Opel I used to have, and some Beemers and Mercedes I have had and worked on. You are just used to a Girling pattern brake. I've never found one easier than the other to work on...


ehh, i dunno. the weird feature for me was the angled shims with small cotter pins that are there instead of the usual booted and greased bolts - never seen anything like it. i like the ones with the greased pins, for sure. especially as these get older, the shims can rust and expand, and get rather hard to...umm..."coerce" out of the slots. i also didn't like the inner shim for the outer pad. they just seem a little rube goldberg for meh.

i had the truck on the lift at a friends shop again, to do that and some other stuff, and the young dudes there were amazed.


Mine rusted and swelled up- and destroyed themselves. I could only sand them down and grease the hell out of them, didn't have to touch them for another 40k miles. Mitsu dealer couldnt get me those shims, they were a NSS part <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

1999 Mitsu Montero - Crappy Weather
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