Front brake pins and spreaders help, Front Brake Help Options

[North Coast Jim]

My project car has been running great for 3 years now and 5300 miles of spirited driving. Even made the last Teenerfest and ran the Tail of the dragon !!

Front brake performance has fallen off dramatically and upon inspection found that the spreader is holding the brake pads from closing on the disk. Ordered another set of pins and spreaders for a late 914 from Stoddards and received a set of pins and spreaders that do not work with my calipers. Upon review of other parts suppliers websites these are the parts I should be using.

See pic. The items on the car presently are shown at the top. Pin is 3.040" long and the vertical part of the spreader is "wide". The entire brake system was purchased from PMB
in late 2015 and has performed flawlessly until now. Calipers were stated as being for a "late 914". When I try and install the new parts the spreader impinges on the OD of the rotor and will not turn. Hard to install as well.

What hardware do I need ?? Thanks to the Brain Trust

[fixer34]

My project car has been running great for 3 years now and 5300 miles of spirited driving. Even made the last Teenerfest and ran the Tail of the dragon !!

Front brake performance has fallen off dramatically and upon inspection found that the spreader is holding the brake pads from closing on the disk. Ordered another set of pins and spreaders for a late 914 from Stoddards and received a set of pins and spreaders that do not work with my calipers. Upon review of other parts suppliers websites these are the parts I should be using.

See pic. The items on the car presently are shown at the top. Pin is 3.040" long and the vertical part of the spreader is "wide". The entire brake system was purchased from PMB
in late 2015 and has performed flawlessly until now. Calipers were stated as being for a "late 914". When I try and install the new parts the spreader impinges on the OD of the rotor and will not turn. Hard to install as well.

What hardware do I need ?? Thanks to the Brain Trust

Just a flyer here, but were the fronts upgraded to vented rotors? The lower pins/springs look to be for stock non-vented.
In any case, I believe the original spreader spring center piece is/was too wide, that is why the pads were (most likely) hitting them. The long center piece should be no wider than the rotor itself.

[North Coast Jim]

My project car has been running great for 3 years now and 5300 miles of spirited driving. Even made the last Teenerfest and ran the Tail of the dragon !!

Front brake performance has fallen off dramatically and upon inspection found that the spreader is holding the brake pads from closing on the disk. Ordered another set of pins and spreaders for a late 914 from Stoddards and received a set of pins and spreaders that do not work with my calipers. Upon review of other parts suppliers websites these are the parts I should be using.

See pic. The items on the car presently are shown at the top. Pin is 3.040" long and the vertical part of the spreader is "wide". The entire brake system was purchased from PMB
in late 2015 and has performed flawlessly until now. Calipers were stated as being for a "late 914". When I try and install the new parts the spreader impinges on the OD of the rotor and will not turn. Hard to install as well.

What hardware do I need ?? Thanks to the Brain Trust

Just a flyer here, but were the fronts upgraded to vented rotors? The lower pins/springs look to be for stock non-vented.
In any case, I believe the original spreader spring center piece is/was too wide, that is why the pads were (most likely) hitting them. The long center piece should be no wider than the rotor itself.

Understand the too wide spreader issue. The reason I'm trying to replace them. Rotors a stock non vented.