Well I confess, I never changed my pins. Just cleaned the old ones up real good and applied anti seize! Never had an issue in the 40k miles since the brake job.
I just used the old way of sliding the pads back, no special tools needed IMHO.
I am at home, managed to make it here Tuesday, Missouri would have shut me down from Wednesday lunch time until Monday sunrise anyway, so I may as well sit at home!
Replaced the battery cables on the RR yesterday seeing as the old ones were looking a little short after the big Optima went in there! So new 2 gauge cables went in there yesterday and all is good in the RR world again!
Martin