I pulled my front pads off today because I'd get a bit of a shake when I was stopping from highway speeds. Calipers were great and so were rotors, the pads were garbage. Lie o meter said 10.2 and hand calculate said 10.1

 

Check your rear brakes. I never had a problem with the fronts, but the rear calipers were a different story. Driver side one stuck twice and required replacement both times. Passenger side was replaced once.

 

thanks man ill check em out. looked like the front calipers had been replaced actually.

 

This happen on my 06 the day I took it off the lot (used) except that it froze so bad you'd have to accelerate hard just to break it lose from a stop. Not to mention how incredibly hot it became. 100 point pre sale inspection my a$$. The 08 had smoke and heat the day I picked that up and I called the dealer as his response was "it didn't do that when we had it". So I gotta dig into the rears to see what's up. Not to mention when at a stop and pressing firmly on the brakes I get a nasty sound (like a heavily rusted spring expanding) that I fixed once but thinking the slide pins need servicing.

 

Mine made that sound too. It was a groove worn around the circumference of the slide pin bore in the caliper. I had to replace the caliper to correct it. Lowest price on calipers for these trucks seems to be advance auto. Make sure you replace pads too.

EDIT: I remember the new owner of my old truck texting me a week after he purchased it and said that he had to replace the rear calipers again after it locked a rear wheel while brakeing at highway speed. That means the calipers I installed were approximately 3 years old at that point.

 

Was yours coming from the front? That's where my noise is? But it's not consistent.

 

Well i recalculated my mpgs today, i got am averaging 9.8 in town and ~13.9~14.0....it keeps going up lol. Should I be on a quest for 235/85/R16 tires? I got a worn out set of 265/75/R16s on there. They are running on the wear bars...

 

Sound was hard to pinpoint. I actually thought it was the center support bearing initially.