[shorod]

There's no clearance for new rotors and new pads if the rotors were appreciably thicker than new OEM. When everything is new OEM you have to have the caliper compressed pretty much completely to fit it back together. So thicker rotors than spec is most likely NOT the issue. I suspect more what happened is in the process of fighting the old rotor off you managed to bend the dust shield in some directly. It may have been from a mis-applied blow with the mallet or possibly from walking the rotor off. If this was the type of rear brake where the parking brake is a drum setup inside the hat of the rotor, fighting the rotor off could pull against the dust shield since the parking brake shoes make contact with the dust shield. The dust shields are kind of like pie tins in that pushing back on one end will result in the opposite end moving the opposite direction. So even when attempting to straighten a dust shield, just because you're manipulating one area, the opposite end will also move/deform.



-Rod