Brake Pads And Vibration Dampners?

[LVDell]

Do the vibration dampners that are suggested to purchase with the new pads (brake pad change DIY) have a specific way to be applied?

Reason I ask is that in the DIY it sounds like they go onto the caliper pistons and then you insert the pad, but I just swaped out my calipers and used my pads from the original caliipers (still plenty of pad left) and most of them had the dampner attached to the back of the pad.

Do I need to remove ALL the dampners from the pads and apply new ones to the pistons? Or can I just apply the dampners to the pistons (or pads) that didn't come over from the previous calipers still attached?

I am sure this sounds confusing but I want to make sure I get it correct.

Thanks!

[D_Man]

Hi

I just did my brakes recently, I pondered the same questions. I replaced pads front and read as well as new rotors on the front brakes.

The rear calipers use two small dampeners on each pad (4 per side) that resemble a suction cup I was able to pry the pads off these dampeners using a putty knife and reuse them again. I would suggest replacing them if doing it all over. The rear dampeners are different sizes so be careful when putting them back in. I found the trick was to place the dampeners back on the piston after the pads were removed on each caliper with the caliper pistons being fully pushed back in. Was a little tedious but not impossible.

The fronts are easier it was a matter of prying the pad off the dampener again but the front dampeners are a different style as you might have seen. The front dampeners did not fall out like the rears when prying the pad away from them. But basically the dampeners are there to cut out any noise, I would most defiantly use Porsche parts on things like caliper bolts, dampeners etc.

This site really helped me when I was preparing to do my brakes on my car.

Good Luck.

Dennis