I finally got my Textar brake pads sorted! Textar pads are increasingly hard to find and on the point of bring prohibitively expensive. See my post of April and June 2019 for the story.
Textars...... |
DS loom with warning wires |
DS loom without warning wires...... |
The wires sit in a groove behind the brake pad material |
Tell-tale marks of a hole |
The chuck is blocked by the backing plate |
If you look carefully at the photo below you can just about see that the silver drill on the left is slightly longer than the standard length black drill on the right......
This one should do it! |
Confirming the drilling angle |
I was nervous drilling the first hole but much happier when I saw fragments of copper wire and shredded fabric appear from my drilling hole. These were tell-tell remnants of the end of of a brake wear wire that had still been embedded in the pad.
Drilling the holes out |
The wires were recovered from my old pads |
I used exhaust assembly paste as my glue |
Does what it says on the tin: "Problem solved". |
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