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 hill grades between Seattle and Quartzsite and places between. I suddenly heard metal on metal sounds coming from my brakes. I went ahead and changed the front pads finding the inside front left pad material had sheared off the metal plate it was supposed to be attached to that goes in the caliper. These pads were only about a year old on the truck from when I made the same trip last year. It just seems a little quick to go through a set of pads.I'm wondering, Has anybody else had experience with having their truck camper mounted on their truck for extended periods of time and had fast brake wear or pad failure like what I show?

F=MA add 50% to the mass of the truck and you dramatically increase the force needed by the brakes to stop it. They will wear faster use tow haul more. That said I had a caliper go bad on my 03 F350 which caused premature pad wear. The piston was not fully retracting causing the pad to constantly rub. Get the system checked out.

My brakes have never worn like that either with my F350 or the current F450. We do use tow/haul and rarely use the brakes on the highway.I would probably look into better brake pads and discs if I had your issue.

What brand are those pads? Get something different.Are those Performance Friction replacements? Good pad but need to be warm for best braking. First couple stops in the morning can take more effort.I recommend a very small amount of white lithium grease at the mounting points of the pads. This reduces the chance of getting stuck and creating unbalanced wear.Don't use an extension on the impact gun for best performance. Especially a non-impact extension acts like a spring to absorb the hammer action.Good time to flush with new brake fluid.Yes I have seen pads come apart like that in the old days when turning wrenches paid the rent and tuition.

I don't recall who made the old brake pads but they were metallic. These new pads are supposed to be good as you can see on the box as I read it aloud. It is not a sticking piston problem as when I pressed the pistons back into the cylinders, they did not stick. The rotors also spun freely before disassembly. A sticking piston on a caliper would cause somewhat of a pull to one side in the steering and that is not happening. Right now, the new pads are providing good stopping power and the stop is in a straight line without any pulling to either side. All is working properly.

1 years is mean less. How many miles?Brake pads can have different quality, but it is driving style that matters the most. I've been doing 100,000 miles on most of the pads. Lately put Akebono in my sedan and after 80k miles measurement indicate they should be good for another 300k miles.

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trail-explorer
Explorer
Feb 20, 2019
Kayteg1 wrote:
1 years is mean less.

What exactly does the phrase mean?
Big_Katuna
Explorer II
Feb 20, 2019
I fought braking issues on my 35’ 20,000# over loaded, under designed 16” wheeled 97 F 53. Rebuilt completely; OEM calipers, slides Ford grease, hoses, high temp fluid, rotors. Still problems.

They ended when I started driving like I didn’t have brakes. Big gap when in traffic, second or third gear downhills, etc. I hated being that guy on downhills but losing your brakes is not fun.
Big_Katuna
Explorer II
Feb 20, 2019
trail-explorer wrote:
Kayteg1 wrote:
1 years is mean less.

What exactly does the phrase mean?

Meaningless. Time doesn’t matter, mileage and use do.

Sometimes you have read between the lines.
trail-explorer
Explorer
Feb 20, 2019
Big Katuna wrote:
trail-explorer wrote:
Kayteg1 wrote:
1 years is mean less.

What exactly does the phrase mean?

Sometimes you have read between the lines.

Pretty common when that person posts. Some of the words are missing or not even correct, so it makes it hard to understand what he/she is saying.
Kayteg1
Explorer II
Feb 20, 2019
Good we don't have brake problems and can concentrate on google speller :D
Big_Katuna
Explorer II
Feb 21, 2019
I eye roll to mice elf all the time::R

Looking for a quite generator.

Can’t stop, having break problems.

We go their allot.

They lost there dog.

We like meetloaf to.
KKELLER14K
Explorer II
Feb 22, 2019
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.
Kayteg1
Explorer II
Feb 22, 2019
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.
Eric_Lisa
Explorer II
Feb 23, 2019
Defective auto parts? New in the box? Naw, NEVER had that happen to me! LOL! :B

Try a different brand. Try a different seller. Don't be afraid to hit up Summit / Jegs / RockAuto instead of your local Shucks/O'Reilys/NAPA/etc. Finding a knowledgeable person at the local auto stores is pretty tough. You may not find what you are specifically looking for locally and the counter person will try to sell you something that is "the same thing". Yeah, right. You are smart do do some on-line research, including here on this forum.

-Eric
Big_Katuna
Explorer II
Feb 23, 2019
Eric&Lisa wrote:
Defective auto parts? New in the box? Naw, NEVER had that happen to me! LOL! :B

Try a different brand. Try a different seller. Don't be afraid to hit up Summit / Jegs / RockAuto instead of your local Shucks/O'Reilys/NAPA/etc. Finding a knowledgeable person at the local auto stores is pretty tough. You may not find what you are specifically looking for locally and the counter person will try to sell you something that is "the same thing". Yeah, right. You are smart do do some on-line research, including here on this forum.

-Eric

I agree. Cheapest and closest isn’t always bestes.

I remember in my youth I had a 69 Lincoln (460) that had a leaky water pump. Changing it out was not easy. Ac. Had to be removed and folded back, rad out, fan out, ps out, one bolt that you could only turn an 1/8th of a turn a whack. Meanwhile I’m working 7-10s.
Found a remanny put it on and like two weeks later, weeping again.

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