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>From: Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm2.hf.intel.com>
>...what's its purpose? Really, I'm serious. It doesn't look like it does
>squat, except becoming a rattle. Is it *really* needed?
The retaining plate is not a VW thing, all the Teves brakes that I've worked
on except the 914 rears (now THAT's a wierd caliper) have them. The 20
degree cutout is there to keep the pad from wearing wedge-shaped. It's sort
of the leading shoe idea as applied to disk brakes. The retaining plate
just serves to maintain the proper 20 degree orientation. On the other
hand, I can't see that there would be any tendency for the piston to turn in
the absence of the plate.
I always install them, if only to make sure that I have the piston rotation
correct.
Jim
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Laura Kepner-Adney
Madison, Wisconsin
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