Chrysler Repair: Disc Brake anti-rattle clips: LH series vehiciles, chrysler concord, haynes manual


Question
My daughters friend was replacing the brake pads on the front of her 2000 Chrysler Concord and didn't really watch how they were assembled when he disassembled them. He called me and I went down there to help and found that everything looked ok except there were two "retractor clips" for each front wheel that we could not determine exactly how they went on and the purpose of them. We removed a rear wheel but there were not any on the two rear wheels.
My question is do you have a picture of how these clips clips actually fit on the caliper? If so could you email the pic?
Thanks in advance.

Answer
Hi Landon,
The lesson of only doing one side at a time was brought home by this experience. Unfortunately I don't have a document scanner but I will try to describe the positioning of these two clips and then I can also xerox and postal mail you the pictures from either my '94 Chrysler manual or my 93-7 Haynes manual. I am assuming that these are identical to those on your 2000.
The larger x-shaped anti-rattle clip goes on the back side of the outboard pad. The short arms straddle the shoe's narrow dimension with the longer of the two (depth-wise bend) arms on the outer circumference so that it will ultimately rub on the rotor when the brake pad gets too thin (audible wear-indicator). The longer arms of that same clip are positioned over the "ears" of the caliper so as to keep the pad under tension in its mounted postion.
The smaller clip is attached to (in a manner which is not clear in the drawings) the backing plate of the inboard pad in a manner where the two opposingly bent spring clips go into the hole in the center of the piston and thus keep the pad from moving laterally (in either direction, thus an anti-rattle design).
Please let me know a mailing address if you want me to send some of the manual pages.
Roland