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Let me start at the beginning. I am working on an 87 900 turbo 2dr hatchback. The outside CV boots were bad so I removed the calipers, spindle and driveshafts and replaced the outside boots. I then cleaned and repacked the inner drivers (those boots were still good), inserted the driveshafts, re-attached the spindles to the upper and lower control arms. the rotors are the vented type and were a touch pitted so I had them resurfaced (still within saab specs for thickness). the calipers were quite rusted and the handbrakes were not working (cable moves freely once unhooked from the caliper) so I just opted to replace the calipers instead of rebuilding. I ordered the calipers from O'Reilly auto (yah I know I should have went to a import shop or a saab specialty site on the internet) but anyway I got the loaded calipers, installed them and could not get the outside pad to fit in between the rotor and the caliper. the inside pad fits with no problem actually has space to spare. On the inside of the rotor the caliper is within a millimeter or two of touching the rotor. I have tried the old pads which were acutally still pretty good, and two other pads and none have fit on the outside of the rotor. Having the background, these are my questions:
1. Are the front calipers for a vented and non vented rotor the same? (Saabsite only shows one version on the calipers but does show different pads for the vented)
2. Is there something I could have done wrong when re-installing the driveshafts/upper or lower balljoints/rotors (I did try swapping rotors side to side) or something else.
3. Is there a chance I got the wrong caliper, I do not have the originals they were tuned in as cores?
Thanks for reading my book, I hope I have included enough info for you to help me out. I appreciate any help you can provide.
Chuck
87 900 T
87 900 TC
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