Brakes Squeal ‘05 2500 SRW

[rjohnson916]

I’ve got 40,500 miles on my truck, since about 38K+ the brakes squeal for the last 40-20 ft of my stopping distance. I rotated my tires a short while ago and noticed quite a bit of material still on the pads. What is making the brakes squeal like this? I thought these trucks go quite a while on the stock pads, just trying to get some clarification on the subject thanks.



-Ryan

 

[DPKetchum]

Not many complaints or posts about any brake noise on these trucks. Imbedded sand,crud etc. can cause squeal. Light braking all the time etc. Try a few HARD stops from say 50 mph to 0 sometimes helps clear depris thats imbedded in pads.

 

[jelag]

Brake squeal is a vibration..... that high speed vibration makes the squeal that you hear... If the pad is not locked into the caliper, or the caliper is loose both can contribute to a squeal... . also glazed over friction can cause this... Since most of these trucks don't have a problem, I can assume that the friction is the right grade, with this information I have the following suggestions.....



1 - pull the pads and rough them with 24 or 36 grit sand paper..... just put the sandpaper on a flat surface and scratch the pad surface...



2 - go to your friendly autoparts store and purchase a small bottle of any squeal lube and put it on the back of the pad where it contacts the piston... .



3 - blow all the dust and dirt out of the rotor, piston, piston to caliper connections and use a dab of anti seize where metal to metal moving parts touch... .



4 - put it back together making sure that the calipers float smoothly on their mounts. .



All of the above are needed to prevent your noise... . hope this helps.....

 

[JasonCzerak]

my stockers never squealed. but my napa ones are (and fad early). While playing around on the highway the other day I did some good hard breaking from 100+ to 50 a few times and that seems to cure the squeal's for now. I'm assuming my is break dust as well. .