Glocker
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I had posted about having a grinding feeling in the rear brakes, and having planned on changing the pads, as they were on the thin side. Well, I was really damn surprised with what I found.
But let me start by saying my truck only has 19,261 miles on it, and the grinding symptom didn't show up until very recently. On top of that, the truck isn't driven much to begin with, and I only took it on a test drive after the grinding symptoms started, after I blasted out the brakes with a pressure washer. I had feared I had a rock or dirt in rear brakes after having been out four wheeling and just gave it a good clean with the pressure washer at first and then a quick test drive. It didn't help and you're about to see why.
Yesterday I drove over to a friend's house and we did a brake job on the truck that almost turned into a terrible nightmare. The problems started when I started taking wheels off and of course the crappy Ford two-piece lug nut problem reared its ugly head. But after we got the offending lug nut off, we started on the passenger rear first, and it went well. The inboard rear passenger brake pad was just at the wear bar. When I took the driver rear apart, that's when I got a surprise!
Inside brake pad, rear driver side.
Rear driver side rotor.
Rear driver side outside pad.
As you can see, the brake pad (inside) and rotor are absolutely trashed. This seems to have happened very quickly in a small amount of miles. To make the situation even better, the rotor was far to gone for turning and no one has rotors in stock in a store. If I wanted rotors, it was looking like I was going to have to wait for them to be shipped! I went to the local Ford dealer, and he looked up the rear rotors in his system, and told me not only were they not in stock in any of the warehouse he could order them from, they were not even available for order anywhere to him. Basically, the Motorcraft rotors was unattainable. He did call a competing dealership and found they had two on their shelf in stock, so we managed to get out there just in time before they closed and snagged them. The parts guy at that dealership told me I was lucky as they were probably the only rear Ranger rotors in the whole Southeast!
But, we were able to get the rears done with new rotors. We took apart the slide pins and greased them up really well, and even took apart the first side we had done to replace the rotor over there so both sides would have new Motorcraft rotors and pads.
We did the front brakes last, and as you can see in the photo below, there were TONS of brake pad life left on the fronts. I could probably get another 10,000 miles out of the front pads (but we changed them anyways) which fits in with the mileage of my truck. To me the big mystery is; how did the rear pads get so hasged, so quickly? And how come it went from sounding fine to absolutely grinding on the pad's backer so fast!?
Old front brake pads.
But let me start by saying my truck only has 19,261 miles on it, and the grinding symptom didn't show up until very recently. On top of that, the truck isn't driven much to begin with, and I only took it on a test drive after the grinding symptoms started, after I blasted out the brakes with a pressure washer. I had feared I had a rock or dirt in rear brakes after having been out four wheeling and just gave it a good clean with the pressure washer at first and then a quick test drive. It didn't help and you're about to see why.
Yesterday I drove over to a friend's house and we did a brake job on the truck that almost turned into a terrible nightmare. The problems started when I started taking wheels off and of course the crappy Ford two-piece lug nut problem reared its ugly head. But after we got the offending lug nut off, we started on the passenger rear first, and it went well. The inboard rear passenger brake pad was just at the wear bar. When I took the driver rear apart, that's when I got a surprise!
Inside brake pad, rear driver side.
Rear driver side rotor.
Rear driver side outside pad.
As you can see, the brake pad (inside) and rotor are absolutely trashed. This seems to have happened very quickly in a small amount of miles. To make the situation even better, the rotor was far to gone for turning and no one has rotors in stock in a store. If I wanted rotors, it was looking like I was going to have to wait for them to be shipped! I went to the local Ford dealer, and he looked up the rear rotors in his system, and told me not only were they not in stock in any of the warehouse he could order them from, they were not even available for order anywhere to him. Basically, the Motorcraft rotors was unattainable. He did call a competing dealership and found they had two on their shelf in stock, so we managed to get out there just in time before they closed and snagged them. The parts guy at that dealership told me I was lucky as they were probably the only rear Ranger rotors in the whole Southeast!
But, we were able to get the rears done with new rotors. We took apart the slide pins and greased them up really well, and even took apart the first side we had done to replace the rotor over there so both sides would have new Motorcraft rotors and pads.
We did the front brakes last, and as you can see in the photo below, there were TONS of brake pad life left on the fronts. I could probably get another 10,000 miles out of the front pads (but we changed them anyways) which fits in with the mileage of my truck. To me the big mystery is; how did the rear pads get so hasged, so quickly? And how come it went from sounding fine to absolutely grinding on the pad's backer so fast!?
Old front brake pads.
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