Brakes Hawk pads won't fit into Cobra Caliper?

Bought an upgrade kit from CJ's to put Cobra front brakes on my GT. It came with Hawk pads, was on sale earlier this summer, but the rotors got backordered, so I am finally pulling it all out of the box and trying to assemble. I snapped the pads into the piston assembly, but the wear indicator tab seems to interfere with the caliper bracket no matter how I align the pads. Anyone ever see this issue?

See the pic of the pad sitting just in the bracket. Unless I'm just being dumb, I'm not sure what to do. Bend the tab? If it rotate it to the left, it hits the side. If I rotate it to the right, the back of the tab hits the cross piece on the bracket.

Thanks,
Jim

I called CJs and they didn't seem to have an answer.

I called Hawk and the rep was helpful, but pointed me to a YouTube video on the assembly where a guy seemed to have stock Cobra calipers. He also recommended bending or shifting the wear indicators out of the way if possible. I tried, but still couldn't get the calipers assembled (pins installed) with the wear indicator there. Looks like my next move is to remove it.

Ended up getting them to fit by bending the tab. Seems to move freely with the calipers assembled, but will monitor it when I install on the car.