AP 2696 Pad Retaining Pins

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My new AP 2696 caliper arrived yesterday, and I was a little surprised by a couple of things. The first was that it felt noticeably heavier than I was expecting, which I guess I'll just have to live with. Then there were the rather inelegant pad retaining pins. I have pretty much zero patience for cotter pins when it comes time to remove them. I did a forum search and internet search to see if I could find a less crude and reusable set of pins, but found nothing suitable that would fit in the calipers available space constraints. So I ended up shortening the existing cotter pins a bit and safety wired each pin to itself over the first flange on the caliper body. That will keep them from falling out, unbent and reusable, but I'm curious if anyone on here has come up with a good set of permanent easy on/off pad retaining pins for this caliper. Admittedly, this is a pretty minor issue in the grand scheme of things.
Bill
 
pantah_good said:
My new AP 2696 caliper arrived yesterday, and I was a little surprised by a couple of things. The first was that it felt noticeably heavier than I was expecting, which I guess I'll just have to live with. Then there were the rather inelegant pad retaining pins. I have pretty much zero patience for cotter pins when it comes time to remove them. I did a forum search and internet search to see if I could find a less crude and reusable set of pins, but found nothing suitable that would fit in the calipers available space constraints. So I ended up shortening the existing cotter pins a bit and safety wired each pin to itself over the first flange on the caliper body. That will keep them from falling out, unbent and reusable, but I'm curious if anyone on here has come up with a good set of permanent easy on/off pad retaining pins for this caliper. Admittedly, this is a pretty minor issue in the grand scheme of things.
Bill
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Bill, if I may say so, it sounds to me like you are redesigning the cotter pin! But as it has already been designed, this seems of limited benefit!

So long as you don't over do it when bending them over, they are very easy to straighten, allowing removal and re-use. They don't really need bending much, just splaying out.

What are you using the bike for? If this is a race bike, your redesigned pin will probably fail scrutineering...
 
Thanks Eddie, I'm sure you are right. It's for street use, but still really don't want the pads falling out. This passes my personal scrutineering (hope the photo comes up). Still a cotter pin, just not bent. Merely looking for alternatives - winters in Vermont are way too long.

AP 2696 Pad Retaining Pins
 
If the caliper has alloy pistons rather then the older steel ones, it should weigh around 900 grams. Try weighing one of the cast iron jobs NVT used!!
Cheers,
Steve.
 
I have an AP Racing 3697 caliper (from RGM but they no longer list them) it takes the same pads as your 2696 but they are held by two large "R" type clips not spilt pins. The caliper came with these sealed in its box when new so contacting AP Racing or internet search may turn up something.
 
Thanks for the reply's, although the yahtzee one went over my head. I don't want to even think about an iron body/steel piston version of one of these and I had considered the "R" style pins but I think I'll just stick with the present pins and move on to slightly more important issues like the actual mounting up of all the new front brake parts.
Bill
 
Mine uses the same pins and are unsightly but have learned to live with it. Never could win at Yatzee game as a teen .
 
Other alternative would be a pin secured with an E clip - ala Brembo style. Now you would have two parts to fit!
 
Ahhh, the good old Brembo days...but I'd need to be holding a magnifying glass for the tiny e-clip, and would be dropping both. Good thinking though.
 
The winters must be waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy to long or they have legalised medicinal weed
 
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