Re: Front Brakes Query...

["JOHN CLAYTON" <john.h.clayton@domain.elided>]

I've been asked to submit the following message from
Mike Allen, the SOC Technical Co-ordinator:-

"I am appalled that a self-styled Stag 'expert' and founder
member of his own club can give such uninformed advice
on how to fit vital safety items like brake pads.

They most definitely ARE handed.  The metal backings are
clearly shaped differently, there being two of each type.
They should be fitted with one pair of each - the right way up -
in either caliper.  It is not easy to describe which is the
'right way'. They can in fact be forced in incorrectly but it 
will then be difficult to get the pins through.  When fitted
correctly, a slight pressure on the anti-rattle springs will
allow the split pins to slide into place."  

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From: Mike Wattam <MikeWattam@domain.elided>
To: Fereday, Chris <chris.fereday@domain.elided>
Cc: TSR Mailing List <stag-digest@domain.elided>
Subject: Front Brakes Query...
Date: 26 February 1999 23:19

Hi Chris

The front pads should NOT be handed on the Stag - all 4 should be
identical.  I'm afraid to say there are quite a lot of very poor quality
pads around and it looks like you got a set of them.  Take them back as
being of unmerchantable quality and get your money back.

The brakes are Lockheed manufacture, and it is still possible to buy Stag
specification pads from Lockheed stockists - or other make such as Ferodo. 
These will last much better than Halfords, which as you say also have to
fit some models of Transit and Granada.

Mike Wattam
Chairman - Triumph Stag Register
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