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Sport 1200 rear caliper slide pin. Two types?

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Up for pads for the rear of my 1200 Sport. Service manual says that there is a split pin that should be removed to extract the slide pin. Mine doesn't have it and the end of the pin is recessed so it can't have a split pin on the end. Looking at pictures of cailpers on Ebay for Guzzis and it seems that there might be two types of pins. What gives? Is there two types of pin? Thanks! :) First pic with split pin and second and third recessed like mine: 08 Moto Guzzi Norge 1200 rear back brake 08 Moto Guzzi Norge 1200 rear back brake 1 08 Moto Guzzi Norge 1200 rear back brake 57
 
It appears there are. One has an e-type clip (first picture) others have an expanding collar. If yours is the lower pictures, just use a small drift that goes through the hole on the bleeder side and gently tap out the pin.
 
The top of the pin looks like this, and that is what captures it inside the bore, hence the need to tap it out from the backside. If there is a lot of miles on the calipers since last removed it can take more of a whack than you think it would.

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Managed to lose my pin so had to fashion one until I can get a new one. Do the pins interchange? I'd like the one with the retaining clip. Thanks.

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The retention of the pin is machined into the caliper for the mushroom head types, if you drive one into a caliper not meant for it you may break the hole into which it is drive, Would not advise.
 
Got new pin with clip today. Fitted perfectly. Guzzi dealer I bought it off was unaware of two caliper types- maybe the end snaps off the shaft and there is only one type???? Hmmm
 
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