Brake pads

[OggyOggy]

Hell I don't know. Maybe the new material being used as well as the home mechanic thinking, "I've always done it like X" so I don't need no stinking instructions? I've been doing my own brake jobs for 45 years and never had a problem. With these things I followed the directions and haven't had any problems.

 

[mwilson]

As the compounds in the friction material change over the years it makes sense that the install / break-in method would change as well. I did find the "Judder" theory interesting and will try the same procedure when I do Hoopty's brakes and rotors next month....

Not saying I like it, Hell I still miss the old asbestos stuff......

 

[BIGNASTY]

Could it be that people let the pad's get to thin and then warp the rotors? most of the rotors of today are THROW AWAY. I don't know about the one's used on Dodge. The auto and parts manufactures want people to buy new parts OR have new parts installed at the time of the brake pad install, so its my guess that they are made to JUST MAKE GRADE for the safety folks not to complain about them, then at the time of a brake job the customer (that would be us) has the proverbial SHAFT put in place.

For instance Why the change to the supposed lifetime lubed front wheel bearings, Well I guess they are Lifetime lubed its just the manufactures idea of Lifetime isn't what the average persons LIFETIME is. They are lubed for the LIFE OF THE BEARING that if it were possible to remove the bearings and re-grease them the LIFETIME would be substantially longer, but then they wouldn't be able to sell lifetime bearings for a couple of hundered bucks each.

Getting back to the brakes, where we live (depending on which person you talk to on TDR) has mountains, the Dodge is more often than not pulling some kind of trailer loaded with livestock, feed, lumber, equipment. Thinking that Dodge is no different than any other manufacture they are not going to make the rotors turn-a-ble or if they are NOT BUT ONCE and then a person would have to worry about thin rotors heating up a warping even faster.

What I have done (right or wrong) is to change the pads (to the ones in my other statement) before most people would. One reason is that they aren't as expensive as both rotor and pad and that thin pads build heat faster thus leading to faster parts replacement. I've had 3 sets of pads on the front OEM & 2 of the others and on the rear OEM and one of the other. NEVER HAVE THE ROTORS BEEN TOUCHED with anything besides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVOb7yX1qy8

They aren't warped they don't squeak ???? and I don't have any kind of auxiliary braking on the truck which has at least 200k on it when I left home about a month and a half ago, I don't know what kind of miles the family has put on it while I've been gone.

BIG

PS: after thinking about when I do install pads, my procedure is often to take the truck for a ride. During the ride I run it up to? MPH and throw out the anchor a few times and then drive into town and have a beer and sandwich with some of the other HICKS that inhabit the town. That's MY break-in procedure.