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Posted by: dralf Jul 8 2004, 07:25 PM

Guys,

Still working on my brakes and seem to bounce between the front and back ones as time and parts permit. My question now is that the rebuilt front brakes I bought from my FLAPS not only had crappy mismatched pads, but they do not have "anti rotation locks" I think I left those things on the old set I turned in as cores.. ...

A few questions: what would cause the piston to rotate anyway ? do I really need them for my 1975 2.0L baby ? And if YES then where do I get a set ?

Signed,
Can't Stop

Posted by: mskala Jul 9 2004, 09:39 AM

I never ran a 4-cyl without the locators, but on the -6, the pistons
have the same cutouts and no locators are used. The pistons
never rotate on me.

Posted by: mike_the_man Jul 9 2004, 11:33 AM

Is that what those are? I wondered when I pulled my brakes apart what their exact purpose was. Why is it bad if the pistons rotate in the first place? I'm slightly confused (but whats new)