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]

Having had somewhat similar issues with spreader springs, I'm thinking the non-OEM design is contributing to the problem of it jamming against the rotor. See if you can find springs that are 'folded' at the end rather than the inverted 'U' shape in the center.

But that doesn't answer the question about the pin length. I assume the top/longer one fit the caliper just fine? So the new/shorter one would not retain the pads or spring properly.