R34 Brake Pad Change Help

[2000gtt]

2000 R34gtt

i changed my brake pads, front and rear, and as i was changing the front i noticed that the pads that were on teh car had 2 metal peices on the back of the pad, 1 peice is the size of the comeplet pad and the other half the size of the pad...

now i put these peices onto the new pad, but i didnt on the rear as i didnt notice it until after the fronts...now should i remove this peice as i am thinking it may have been specificly for the type of pad that was previously on the car?

changed to bendix CT standard pads

ive noticed a metal noise when i drive past fences i thought it could be that moving around

thanks

[Moodles2]

The 2 metal pieces are the brake shims (they are factory items and are meant to be taken off the old pads and put on the replacements pads), they're there to prevent audible vibration under braking (and are supposed to be greased as well). If the noise is bothering you, just put the shims back on and make sure to grease them with copper grease.

[br3ndan]

just another word of advice

if the brake pads came with shims, use them

i change to green stuff which came with there own shims. I used the factory ones first, and they were quite noisey

so i change to the ones that they gave me, and they have made no noise since =)

Edited September 19, 2009 by br3ndan

[2000gtt]

ok awsome, thanks for that, i will try greesing them up, do i put the greese only between the pad n metal or all over both sides?

the noise is an annoying metaly cling scrapey type noise, not too loud tho, and thats wiht the metal shims (not greesed tho)

the replacement pads didnt come with any tho

[Moodles2]

Pages from R32 GTR manual, same applies though: