95 Lincoln Town Car Calipers

[SHO13]

I've just about completed all my suspension work and the 96 brake upgrade. I went to install my new (remanufactured) calipers and realized the bolts didn't fit. After some webs searching, I found out they gave me 95 Town Car calipers.

I compared the pads between the town car and the PFZ 598-20's (continentnal), and the town car is definitely wider (longer) but not as tall. It also needs slightly larger caliper/knuckle bolts. I'm assuming 14mm vs 12mm. It also looks like it would require slight drilling of the knuckle bolt holes (maybe 1mm or so) for the bolts to fit. Everything else seemd to line up.

From what I understand, you get more breaking power on the outer edge of the rotor. A wider pad would be better than a taller one, correct? I'm probably going to exchange my calipers tomorrow for the continentals. I just wanted to know if anyone experimented with this set up before?

Thanks

 

[NoSlo]

The calipers to use are the 94-99 SHO calipers with the 7476-D598 (598) pads. I went to the Autozone site and the calipers are indeed different on the town car, the 380 is the town car and the 390 is the taurus. With the FN74 bracket on 94-95 knuckles all should drop right together.

 

[SHO13]

I agree with you, my question was more aimed at whether or not someone has used them before (because they had wider pads) and seem to line up. The only difference I noted was the slightly larger bolts that would secure them to the knuckles.

I had them mounted on my knuckles w/11.6 rotor, the only way I new they were the wrong calipers were my bolts were too small and the replacement 598 pads didn't fit.

 

[wood_e]

95 continental calipers will work. I used them for my 96 upgrade and they were fine. They're the same size as the 96+ SHO calipers, and parts places don't seem to screw up if you ask for the conti. calipers