Gotta change the brake pads on the truck

Keith Molden

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Dog Gone it, they just don't make them like they used to (& I'm glad)Got to change the front pads on the 2011 F250 Super duty for the first time. It's only got 97,000 miles on it so I think I got pretty good mileage out of the original ones. It doesn't seem like the ones on my other trucks I've had lasted this long and I've pulled quite a few pretty heavy loads with it & the 25' gooseneck. I changed the drivers side Saturday but didn't have enough energy to change the other ones. I had a devil of a time getting the wheel off. I ended up putting the lug nuts back on loose & driving it up the road a little way weaving back & forth till it came loose and I suppose that will be the way to get the passenger side one off too. I don't know if the gurus will clobber me for doing that or not but it worked LOL. I think I'll have enough energy to change the other one this afternoon.
 
I sold my 01 Silverado 1500 to a coworker. I bought it new, had 250,000 when I sold it, now over 300,000.

Original brakes all around. And it saw every kind of driving, mostly commuting in heavy traffic. Did do some trailer pulling and overloaded many times!
 
You must do a lot of coasting to a stop, the way my dad taught me! Not everything on the farm had reliable brakes, but our area was pretty flat, so that was OK.
 
Good mileage from those pads. On my Ram 3500 I use a sledgehammer. Jack it up and give the tire, NOT the rim, a few whacks while rolling it around. Usually comes loose after a couple of thumps.
 
Put a little bit of never seize around where the wheel pilots on the hub and a little on the studs too. Then use a torque wrench to tighten them up.
 
Obviously, no tire rotation going on here.

My 1999 F150 got it's pads replaced at 200,000 miles. Not that they needed to be replaced yet but I was concerned about the amount of miles. The oil was changed and the tires rotated every 5,000 miles by the dealer. Before any of you spout off how you would never have the dealer do any work, I am disabled and unable to do the work myself. I have had very good service from my Ford and Chevy dealers. Also own a Chevy car. Don't trust any of the oil change joints nor any of the bubba garages.
 
I don't see where miles, nor make of truck, have much to do with how long brakes last. It is a matter of how much the brakes are actually used, how hard, and what the friction surface is made of. Soft organic pads wear out often with no metal wear on the rotor. Metallic pads can last much longer and wear down the metal while they do it. No magic brakes that I am aware of.
 
Beg to differ, my tires get rotated at WalMart whenever it's time. I bought Michliens there because I was on the road so much for work before I retired. So NO I haven't removed a wheel till now, that's what I paid them for. I haul quite a few loads but I don't fly up to the stop sign and slam on the brakes. I was taught long, long ago, what are you gonna do if a brake line breaks doing that. As said below Old equipment and farm trucks don't always have good stopping power ( ours sure didn't anyway). I'm sure glad you got 200,00 out of your original pads and I'm glade I got almost 100.000 out of mine.
 
AS a former tire shop manager, we loved the customers who just coasted to a stop. The caliper slides freeze, the pistons stick and the pads rust off of the backing plates. I do not mean slam the brakes every time you stop, but stop quick once in a while,make the brakes work once in a while.(or they may not work when you need them)
 

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