My opinion, stay away from ceramic pads. More dust means the pads are
working better. I've cracked three sets of cross drilled rotors on y truck.
They last for a while but will eventually crack. It's because the brake
systems on our trucks is barely adequate. The front rotors are too small,
and the rear brakes don't assist enough to compensate.
brian cropp
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From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Barry Oliver
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 8:08 AM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: DML: Stupid brake problem.
OK, I have identified a problem and now I would like some opinions on
what is possibly causing it. I looked at my brakes yesterday as part of
my exhaust repair [I pulled my pass wheel for clearance] and my rotors
are totally toast, Rusty, Flaking and grooved. The odd part is that my
pads look almost new. On the pass side at least I have 7-8mm of pad,
inside and out. I'll post pictures as soon as my camera charges, but I
have never seen this much disparity between rotor wear and pad wear. It
seems to suggest that these pads are way too hard for my rotors and are
eating them. Oh, this combination [Morse Ceramic pads, NAPA top of the
line rotors] has almost 60k miles on it, and I was expecting to have to
do brakes relatively soon anyway.
By way of a possible solution, I was thinking about upgrading to
Stainless steel slotted rotors. The Stainless for two reasons, first
because I don't drive my truck every day and my rotors do rust from
sitting, and second, because I understand that SS is marginally harder
than the regular rotors. I am looking at the slotted variety because I
guess every Dakota that has ever run drilled rotors has had cracks..
[although I am still not 100% convinced that isn't really a small
problem that has been blown way out of proportion by a vocal minority on
the Internet..] The popular combo of powerslots and hawk pads I think
has less appeal to me because of the combo of rust [standard rotor
material] and increased brake dust over the ceramics.
Opinions?
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