It's Brakes time for the truck and I seem to warp the rotors real fast, I drive a steep and long grade every day and it takes it toll on the ole' rotors. I have been poking around and have come across the cryo treated rotors and seems like it's something I might be interested in, but it would be nice to get some feed back from you guys. Also will need a recommendation on pads as well. Oh, I will be doing the job myself too so if there is a good thread or video I'm all ears, otherwise I was just going to youtube it.

Cheers!

 

All I can recommend, is to stay away from the ceramic pads. From what I've noticed, they seem to be the culprit in warped rotors...

 

I have had the best luck with Ford brakes, but I know some guys like hawk. With a long downgrade everyday, you might want to consider an exhaust brake or maybe a DP tune with the ebpv brake.

 

I've got cryoed rotors and hawk pads with no warping issues. Of course I never had any warping issues with my stock rotors either so my story isn't of much use.

I will say my set up offers improved braking performance, but at the same time my wife's truck has EBC yellow stuff and stock rotors with oversized tires and hers stops as good as mine does. So if you want braking performance, I'd suggest the EBC pads. If you're worried about warped rotors, wait for someone who doesn't live on flat ground and drives a stick.

 

Ditto, I've ran cryo-treated powerslots with hawk HD pads

 

Not a hijack on ya Natedog, a hitchhike; I'm also looking for cryo's, but want smooth, no slots. I put slotted on the wife's Subie and dislike the sound. As to pads, any opinions on Porterfields?

 

I've posted a lot about cryo treated rotors and, 6 1/2 years and over 100k miles later I'm looking at another set here pretty soon for my Excursion.

I've had them turned twice, and am on my third set of Hawk LTS pads.

I also have them on my old F250 that my daughter now owns.

Welcome to guzzle's Powerslot/Hawk pads brake Maintenance Web Page

Stewart

 

boy them cryo rotors and hawk pads sound like the cats meow!

 

They have been for me.

I had been frustrated with cementite/hot spotting/black spotting of my rotors. It's a condition that causes the pulsation/shimmy that most describe as a "warped" rotor. Anyway, I dealt with the problem for a long time until I finally upgraded to cryo treated rotors (after much research) back in December of 2006 and that completely solved all my problems.

Stewart

 

Thanks Everybody, that's exactly the endorsments that I was looking for. I'll be ordering some up real soon and I'll let you know how the install goes.

 

I replaced my rotors about 4 years ago and went with the non-cryo'd Powerslot rotors. I replaced the pads 2 years ago with Hawk LTS pads and have been mostly happy with the setup ever since.

If I had it to do again I would go with the cryo'd rotors for sure. I've been experiencing the same "pulse" that Stewart mentioned. I turned one rotor because it had a sizeable groove worn in it but not the other side. I need to remove the one that I didn't turn and have it done and see if that makes the difference.

In one of the posts above there is a link to Guzzle's page. Read it through if you haven't already. It's a great write up.

While you're working on the front end you might want to check out the unit bearings and lube the needle bearings at the same time.

Since we're practically neighbors and you can't go anywhere around these parts without hitting a hill of some kind and I haul quite a heavy camper and often a boat as well. This setup has really held up quite well.

 

I had cryoed rotors and Hawk pads and wasn't overly impressed. I don't drive my truck much and that is hard on brakes. When I do use the truck it is pulling one or two tractor pulling tractors or a cattle trailer. The cryoed rotors seemed to warp and last just as long as any rotors. I just bought ORielly stuff last weekend to replace it. I will spend half the money and do them a little more often.

 

I changed to the EBC dimpled and slotted rotors and Yellow Stuff pads and I am verry happy with the performance difference. I can't remember if they are cryo'd or not but they work great. But as someone said you can actually hear the slots in the rotors. It even warns you about the noise in the instructions. I solved my noise problem by installing 200cc single shot hybrid injectors, can't hear the rotors no more. Lol!

 

That's what I call using your head.

Chet