I've just replaced the front discs and pads on my wife's 20-year-old Ford Puma, and I have a query about the so called retaining clips. They are made of highly tempered steel wire and the free ends plug into holes in the caliper. They have loops which hook behind lugs on the caliper carrier. They look like this:
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According to my Haynes Fiesta manual (Haynes don't do a Puma manual, but the running gear is the same as a 1995-onwards Fiesta) they look like this when fitted:
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Anyone know what their function is? Is the middle bit supposed to contact the back of the pad? Mine don't - by 2 or 3 mm - see:
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Sadly, I didn't make a careful enough note of what they originally looked like before I removed them. I wonder whether I have put them back correctly - but I can't see any other way they could go. The loops look as if they should go further onto the lugs - but if I tap the free ends further into the holes, they pivot on the caliper body and the loops move
*outwards* rather than inwards.
Any informed comment will be greatly appreciated.