Ok, I just did this a couple days ago with no haynes manual and nothing i could find on here. Its not easy. And if you think getting them off is hard wait till you try and put the new ones on. This job was meant to be done without the rear axle in which would make it about 20 times easier but it is possible to work and contort your way around it and get them on and off.
Heres the way i found easiest to do it (after doing both sides differently). You don't have to follow this order just as long as everything gets done.... this is just what worked for me.
- Buy new pads and a hardware kit (all new springs, clips, adjusters, etc)
- cut/break old springs (two long and one short)
- remove spring retainers (the u-shaped flat steel thigns) from pins by compressing them with a screwdriver and sliding them over the flat end of the pin
- remove old pads
Now heres the fun part.....
- hook one long spring on back of one pad and bend over hook so it can't fall off while you're trying to make everything else fit
- place one pad in place and slide spring behind axle and under bracket (the thing that brake cable comes into back of)
- by looking at just the right anlge and probably using a screwdriver to move the spring around you can hook it onto the pad on the other side just barely
- once you have the back spring on put one of the retaing pins in through the back of the brake plate, into the brake pad and clip it with the new retaining spring. (thats sounds a lot easier than it is.... use screw drivers, needle noses, lock jaws, whatever ya need)
-now put the adjuster in place at the bottom and the small spring as well
- now put the other retaining clip and pin in the other pad
-finally, make sure everything is semi lined up and put the long spring on the front side.... i had to use screwdriver to pry, locking needle noses to pull and its still harder than helll.... but once again, its possible...
-- and now... do the other side....
