Polman

….Since we are talking brake callipers….How to loosen those suckers in the picture, who are the reason for many bad words I have tried to heat the small screws, a lot off 5:56.….very tricky to get off…..very grateful for hints

-nick

Follow-up -

It turns out that you can't get a screwdriver to pry out the inside brake pads with ilko's method. The mounting points are in the way. Should work well for the outer pads though.

I ended up pulling the calipers off and then tapping the inner pads out. I don't know why I didn't do it that way all along - dead simple!

I didn't have to grind much off the top & bottom of the new pads to get them to slip in and have some freedom of movement.

All in all, a success! I even replaced the pads with all the shims, anti-squeal, and sensor hardware in tact.

ilko

Once you take the outside pads off, the pressure in the system drops and you can push the pistons on the other end back pretty easily. No need to take the calipers off. But hey, as long as you got it done

boxsey911

Polman, unless you can put extreme heat on the screws until they are cherry red, they will not budge. The alternative I used was to dremmel a slot in the head and then use a 10 mm cold chisel to break the bond. The first one might take you an age to get all the way out but once you get the hang of it both plates can be removed pretty quickly. Here's the mess the cold chisel makes of those screws, so you'll need new ones

demonfish

i'll be doing this job in the next month or so... got new pads and RS discs to fit up back, swap out the brake regulator and re bleed the whole lot...

i'm not bothing with those shim things, they get in the way at track days.

Not looking forward to removing the spring plates

Marc Shaw

I use the Hazet slide hammer that has pins that fit into the pins in the top of the pads.

Marc

GMS

The slide hammer will only work if the brakes have either no vibration dampers or are slit off the pads first.

Sten

To remove the screws that hold the spring plates, use a MIG to weld a nut onto the screw - the heat from the weld melts the threadlock on the screw, and the nut gives you some purchase to undo the damn things!