Disk Brake Pads With Heat Cracking
Link Goes Direct To Video Segment Showing Brake Pad Wear. I had my Truck Camper mounted on my F-250 for a couple months. I was in Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and did drive a few steep ...
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KKELLER14K wrote:
When a brake is dragging....can't you smell that?...I just replaced a rear caliper that had seized up..not the guide pins but the caliper piston broke and seized up...SidecarFlip has this down....good write up.
Depends how much temperature it generates.
When I was using F450 for equipment hauling - infra red thermometer was my big friend. Not only tire temp would indicate lower pressure, but checking the brakes temp would indicate any problems with them, while occasional check of differential temp was not bad idea.
20 seconds spend at rest stop could avoid lot of problems down the road.
The laser-pointed thermometers go for $10 at HF sales. No excuse to not carry one.
With new truck and TPMS I don't do it anymore, but when truck ages, the thermometer is still handy.
