Attention: TDR Forum Junkies Bought the NAPA Premium pads AE7864M ~$70 bucks couple cans of brake clean and brake fluid.
The calipers are held on with 18mm bolts that are red threadlocked on. both bolts are inacessible by impact (broke a universal impact trying) and a 2' breaker bar is required. Due to the torque and red threadlock good 6 pt socket is required.
Loosen the slide bolts(13mm) before removing caliper oops. These bolts need to be regreased before reassembly which I had to make a special trip back to the store for brake caliper grease as the NAPA kit does not come with any.
These calipers are heavy and you should plan where you are to put them as you don't want to let them hang from the hose.
A vise is your best friend on getting the pistons compressed as they should be compressed evenly and a pair of pliers is not going to cut it. Be sure that everything is cleaned real well before compressing (I used a can on each caliper). Pads and anti-Rattle clips slid in perfectly. Cleaned the red threadlock off caliper bolts with a utilty knife and cleaned the threads througly with brake clean and applied a drop of red Loc-tite and torqued to 90 ft/lbs (not sure this is the right number but with the thread size that is what I figured was good from my thread size-ft/lb chart).
I had the wheels back on the ground after only an hour of actual work (I had to run to the store for grease so it ended up being 1 1/2)
Well two things the pads did not need to be replaced yet still had 30% (70K)of the pad left based on NAPA pad thickness, but I had them and already had one wheel torn down when I realized they did not need to be changed but went ahead anyway. 2. the truck stops better now than with the stock pads may just be that they are better than what was left of the stock set or may in fact be better than new stockers plus no more squealing.
Now I just need to change the brake fluid and I will be sitting real good for brakes for a real long time.
The calipers are held on with 18mm bolts that are red threadlocked on. both bolts are inacessible by impact (broke a universal impact trying) and a 2' breaker bar is required. Due to the torque and red threadlock good 6 pt socket is required.
Loosen the slide bolts(13mm) before removing caliper oops. These bolts need to be regreased before reassembly which I had to make a special trip back to the store for brake caliper grease as the NAPA kit does not come with any.
These calipers are heavy and you should plan where you are to put them as you don't want to let them hang from the hose.
A vise is your best friend on getting the pistons compressed as they should be compressed evenly and a pair of pliers is not going to cut it. Be sure that everything is cleaned real well before compressing (I used a can on each caliper). Pads and anti-Rattle clips slid in perfectly. Cleaned the red threadlock off caliper bolts with a utilty knife and cleaned the threads througly with brake clean and applied a drop of red Loc-tite and torqued to 90 ft/lbs (not sure this is the right number but with the thread size that is what I figured was good from my thread size-ft/lb chart).
I had the wheels back on the ground after only an hour of actual work (I had to run to the store for grease so it ended up being 1 1/2)
Well two things the pads did not need to be replaced yet still had 30% (70K)of the pad left based on NAPA pad thickness, but I had them and already had one wheel torn down when I realized they did not need to be changed but went ahead anyway. 2. the truck stops better now than with the stock pads may just be that they are better than what was left of the stock set or may in fact be better than new stockers plus no more squealing.
Now I just need to change the brake fluid and I will be sitting real good for brakes for a real long time.
