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Brake pads arrived today and boy am I pleased (Ferodo Pads FDB451 and FDB998) fronts were £28 and the rears were £22, and they are made by Ferodo, a make I've used for years on all different cars.
Fitting the fronts was very simple. Simply pull out the 2 retaining pins, making sure the spring plate doesn't take off across the floor, with the old pads still in place use a decent flat end screwdriver to prise the pistons in using the old pads as leverage so you don't do any damage to the pistons. If they have been pushed in fully the new pads will slide straight in.
Rear pads are just as easy to fit, the only difference being they are held in with strong spring that clips in at the top. The spring is hinged onto the caliper at the bottom and more than likely will have siezed so spray a good bit of WD40 around it and leave it a while before trying to free it. Getting the pads out is exactly the same way as the fronts are done.
The rear discs have to be taken off to get at the shoes. The caliper has to be removed first but it's only a case of removing 2 19mm bolts to get the caliper out. The disc is held on with 2 13mm bolts. Once they are out it's a bit of tapping with a hammer to get the disc to release... The shoes are held on with 2 retaining clips and 2 springs top and bottom. There's an adjusting wheel at the bottom of the shoes to. This will fall out when you have the retaining springs off. I'm holding it on in the photo below so you can see it... Oh nearly forgot, slacken off the handbrake cable as well. It has to be done from under the car and is 2 10mm nuts.
Re-fitting is just the reverse of taking things off. Once the discs are back on you can adjust the shoes via a hole in the disc.
Now, Maserati were looking £137 for a set and there's no way, once you see them, that you will ever figure out how they can charge so much for a set. They are smaller than a Fiat Uno's for dear sake. I wasn't for paying that so off I went with a shoe in hand to my local motor factors to see if I could match them . It took me all of 5 minutes to match them. £22 all in. The ones I bought needed very slight modification to be made fit. I'm not going to post up what vehicle the shoes are the same as because I don't want to be held responsible if you buy the same ones and they don't work, however if you own a 3200 and you want to try the shoes yourself email me and I'll let you know what shoes they are.
After I got the brakes all on it was the first chance I got to try the car after fitting the lambda sensors. "WOW" is all I can say, the car had clearly not been running right since I bought it, and I'd thought it was pretty quick then. It now runs silky smooth and the power delivery is fierce. This is a car that I could lose my license over, you just don't realise how fast your traveling and have to keep one eye on the speedo most of the time. I like this car, a lot.
Another angle I looked at was to get the original shoes re-lined. I used the The Belfast Brake Company and the results you can see for themselves. A lot cheaper than having to buy a new set! Since I have the other shoes on now, I'll keep these ones good.
Brake pads arrived today and boy am I pleased (Ferodo Pads FDB451 and FDB998) fronts were £28 and the rears were £22, and they are made by Ferodo, a make I've used for years on all different cars.
Fitting the fronts was very simple. Simply pull out the 2 retaining pins, making sure the spring plate doesn't take off across the floor, with the old pads still in place use a decent flat end screwdriver to prise the pistons in using the old pads as leverage so you don't do any damage to the pistons. If they have been pushed in fully the new pads will slide straight in.
Rear pads are just as easy to fit, the only difference being they are held in with strong spring that clips in at the top. The spring is hinged onto the caliper at the bottom and more than likely will have siezed so spray a good bit of WD40 around it and leave it a while before trying to free it. Getting the pads out is exactly the same way as the fronts are done.
The rear discs have to be taken off to get at the shoes. The caliper has to be removed first but it's only a case of removing 2 19mm bolts to get the caliper out. The disc is held on with 2 13mm bolts. Once they are out it's a bit of tapping with a hammer to get the disc to release... The shoes are held on with 2 retaining clips and 2 springs top and bottom. There's an adjusting wheel at the bottom of the shoes to. This will fall out when you have the retaining springs off. I'm holding it on in the photo below so you can see it... Oh nearly forgot, slacken off the handbrake cable as well. It has to be done from under the car and is 2 10mm nuts.
Re-fitting is just the reverse of taking things off. Once the discs are back on you can adjust the shoes via a hole in the disc.
Now, Maserati were looking £137 for a set and there's no way, once you see them, that you will ever figure out how they can charge so much for a set. They are smaller than a Fiat Uno's for dear sake. I wasn't for paying that so off I went with a shoe in hand to my local motor factors to see if I could match them . It took me all of 5 minutes to match them. £22 all in. The ones I bought needed very slight modification to be made fit. I'm not going to post up what vehicle the shoes are the same as because I don't want to be held responsible if you buy the same ones and they don't work, however if you own a 3200 and you want to try the shoes yourself email me and I'll let you know what shoes they are.
After I got the brakes all on it was the first chance I got to try the car after fitting the lambda sensors. "WOW" is all I can say, the car had clearly not been running right since I bought it, and I'd thought it was pretty quick then. It now runs silky smooth and the power delivery is fierce. This is a car that I could lose my license over, you just don't realise how fast your traveling and have to keep one eye on the speedo most of the time. I like this car, a lot.
Another angle I looked at was to get the original shoes re-lined. I used the The Belfast Brake Company and the results you can see for themselves. A lot cheaper than having to buy a new set! Since I have the other shoes on now, I'll keep these ones good.
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