Something you should know about pads

[Camarok]

Yesterday I walked into my local Advance Auto store and i asked for new pads and rotors for the front. There were two different types, ones for front disk and rear drum (figure that one out) and ones for the taxi/police package.

--This is under the SHO catigory mind you--

When i got home to put the pads on, they didn't fit. I bought the ones for the taxi/police package. I looked at the inner pad and the little 3 prong clip was much smaller than the one that was on the car. So I took them back along with my old one, and we looked at the pads for the front pad rear drum setup, same as the last but smaller. WTF i'm thinking. SO we look and look at different years of SHO, we even look into the taurus SLO catigory. NOPE!

So we just picked a completely different car. We found some matching pads. The are for non other then a Thunderbird SC, not a normal Thunderbird, but the SC. WHY? why not just more of a hassle. LOOK OUT WHEN BUYING PADS!!

This must be kinda like the whole PCV they sell for the car but there really is no valve on the car...
At least the rotors worked!

 

[sdpatt]

You should have asked. Why not go to AutoZone and get the Performance Friction Carbon Metallic 4214S pads for $29 for the pre-January 91 SHOs? Better pads. Lifetime warranty.

 

[LaTechSHO]

Advance sells some good pads too... those bendix titaniametallic pads are great pads... thier house brand pad isn't great just as most house brand pads aren't.

If you had looked in the parts database first you could have eleviated some of this trouble however.

89-93 is a 421A pad....

what they gave you is a MKD421
you needed is a MKD421A

ford did this on several vehicles... the difference actually lies in the caliper... bigger steel caliper piston for the pads designated A
smaller phenolic caliper piston for the non-A designated pads


had the guy behind the parts counter had any idea what he was doing he could have pulled the correct pad off the shelf seconds after realizing the ones you got were wrong


Louis

 

[pjtoledo]

LaTechSHO:
Advance sells some good pads too... those bendix titaniametallic pads are great pads... thier house brand pad isn't great just as most house brand pads aren't.

If you had looked in the parts database first you could have eleviated some of this trouble however.

89-93 is a 421A pad....

what they gave you is a MKD421
you needed is a MKD421A

ford did this on several vehicles... the difference actually lies in the caliper... bigger steel caliper piston for the pads designated A
smaller phenolic caliper piston for the non-A designated pads


had the guy behind the parts counter had any idea what he was doing he could have pulled the correct pad off the shelf seconds after realizing the ones you got were wrong


Louis

Lets have a bit of clarification on this topic. For the early SHOs with 10" front brakes the calipers are identical to Slos of the same year. The difference is in the piston,,SHO has a steel piston, Slo has a phenolic piston. The outer dimensions of both pistons are identical. BUT, the phenolic has very thick walls, so the inner hole is smaller. The corresponding correct pad has either a wide set of fingers for the SHOs steel (thinwalled) piston,,or a set of narrow fingers for the smaller inner hole in the Slo phenolic pistons. Those fingers subdue noise and ease assembly, not much else. Of course the pad composition differs between SHO and Slo. If you are really in a bind to just get a car on the road the fingers can be bent as necessary to make either pad fit either piston.

Perry

 

[Camarok]

Oh i understand the confusion completly, but jeeze can't parts stores get things right?! What if it was some guy who knew very little on brakes, got the non "A" type and bent the fingers to fit. This could be really dangerous. Because there are dumb people out there, then again if you are dumb, you shouldn't own a sho!
lol jk