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Originally Posted by That_Titanium_4RNR
Moral of the story for anyone doing 5th gen brake swap....DO NOT USE 5TH GEN REAR ROTORS....they don't center up correctly on the axle center bore(there's about 2mm of slop)...also make sure that you pay very close attention to the dust shield on the front calipers and that the e-brake shoes are not hung up on your rotor before you try and remove the rear rotors. You will bend the pins and have a nightmare trying to re-do the assembly.
Thanks to all for the input and ideas
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Glad you solved the problem! I had the following typed yesterday morning, but for some reason it didn’t post, and I never came back until today so I didn’t notice.
This may not help with the clicking, but with regard to the rotors... after much research I discovered that the 5th gen calipers and pads work fine with the 4th gen rotors. In fact, there is no advantage to using the 5th gen rotors anyway, since they are the same dimensionally as the 4th, other than the center bore being different. So, when I ordered my new Powerstop brakes, I bought everything separate so I could customize it the way I wanted. I bought the z34 extreme towing pads and rotors for 4th gen, then bought the 5th gen calipers. Everything went together perfectly. Well, except for the parking brakes, but I was missing ALL of the internal components when I bought the truck, so that made sourcing components and getting them to work a bit challenging!