Re: 5KCSTQ brake pads?

[Brendan Rudack <rudack@ucsub.Colorado.EDU>]

Graydon to complicate things more;  my mechanics Euro 5000TQ hs the same
diameter rotors as the G60 equipped carss only a little thinner and it had
single pot calipers.  HE recently upgraded to the G60s and the thicker
rotors though.

Brendan Rudack			rudack@ucsub.Colorado.EDU
88' 90Q
Boulder, Colorado 

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Graydon D. Stuckey wrote:

> All,
> 
> 	I have always thought that the '86 5KCSTQ had a running change in 
> Jan '86 when they went to a different brake pad.  I assumed that the dual 
> piston calipers (that's G60 to you Bob:-) used the same pads as the post 
> Jan '86 brakes.
> 
> 	Here's what I _KNOW_ for sure now.  It's only a little more than 
> before, but its progress :-)
> 
> 	My '86 (Jan '86 build date) has dual piston calipers, and takes a 
> large pad (145mm top to bottom).  My neighbour's blue '86 has the single 
> piston calipers, and takes the smaller pads (110mm from top to bottom, 
> not including a retaining tab).  Would someone care to measure a pad from 
> an '89-on 100/200?  I am betting that they are 145mm.  
> 
> 	Is there a third pad, or does the '89-on merely have the dual 
> piston calipers that are occasionaly found on earlier 5KCSTQs?
> 
> 	Thanks very much.
> 
> Later, ---------------------------------------------------------- 
> Graydon D. Stuckey 	'85 Mazda RX7 GS, no toys 
> graydon@apollo.gmi.edu 	'86 Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro, has toys
> Flint, Michigan USA	'89 Thunderbird SC, lotsa toys
> 
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