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Gotta love the folks with no experience in the salt/rust belt, with the "don't use never seize on the threads!". Up here in New England we put never seize on *everything*, even on hot dogs, lol. ;-)
Gotta love the folks with no experience in the salt/rust belt, with the "don't use never seize on the threads!". Up here in New England we put never seize on *everything*, even on hot dogs, lol. ;-)
It’s okay to use never seize. Just have to adjust the torque limits accordingly.
These pins have flat area with some "ridges" on it. Any particular orientation for that area? When I took mine out, I think that area was up on the top pin and down on the bottom pin; but not sure.
These pins have flat area with some "ridges" on it. Any particular orientation for that area? When I took mine out, I think that area was up on the top pin and down on the bottom pin; but not sure.
It will probably only bolt in one way. If you notice, the stud is offset to the flat area.
Gotta love the folks with no experience in the salt/rust belt, with the "don't use never seize on the threads!". Up here in New England we put never seize on *everything*, even on hot dogs, lol. ;-)
Originally Posted by Sport45
It’s okay to use never seize. Just have to adjust the torque limits accordingly.
Been an ASE Certified Mechanic back in the 90's, in IL where everything rusts. IF you use Anti Seize, torque accordingly or risk a stud snapping off from being over torqued. Reduce the torque value 25% if you use Anti seize, thats all, nothing more, nothing less. You get the exact same clamping force. Don't believe me, or the Experts who wrote the documentation on it? Then do an experiment and WOW yourself, take a dry lugnut, torque it to specs, and mark where it lines up, then take it off, put anti seize on, and do it again and see how much further it turned.
When I did brakes on the rear of mine last year I had frozen slide pins. One side was so bad we had to put it in a vise and beat the slide pin out. Previous owner must have had the truck worked on by guys who didn't take any pride. It's a good idea to pull the brake slide pins out every other year and grease the hell out of them whether you need rotors and pads or not.
When I did brakes on the rear of mine last year I had frozen slide pins. One side was so bad we had to put it in a vise and beat the slide pin out. Previous owner must have had the truck worked on by guys who didn't take any pride. It's a good idea to pull the brake slide pins out every other year and grease the hell out of them whether you need rotors and pads or not.
Every other year???
Granted use and mile per year will help decide but personally I do it once a year as a maintenance item. It's such an easy task and can be done while doing a tire rotation. But then I do most the easy maintenance on my truck. Only a few simple tools are needed.
Was rotating my tires today and decided to check my front brake slide pins. Yep, driver side lower was frozen almost solid. Driver side upper had a torn boot. And because of this, one of the brake pads was worn unevenly. Sigh... so I didn't expect to do this today but I had to go to the store and get new boots and brake pads. Hammered out the frozen slide pin, took all 4 pins to the garage and smoothed them back out and regreased them, cleaned the mounting holes out on the calipers, then reinstalled everything with the new pads and lots of caliper grease. My goodness these Ford slide pins are garbage. Never had a vehicle before that goes through slide pins/boots/pads like this one.
Was rotating my tires today and decided to check my front brake slide pins. Yep, driver side lower was frozen almost solid. Driver side upper had a torn boot. And because of this, one of the brake pads was worn unevenly. Sigh... so I didn't expect to do this today but I had to go to the store and get new boots and brake pads. Hammered out the frozen slide pin, took all 4 pins to the garage and smoothed them back out and regreased them, cleaned the mounting holes out on the calipers, then reinstalled everything with the new pads and lots of caliper grease. My goodness these Ford slide pins are garbage. Never had a vehicle before that goes through slide pins/boots/pads like this one.
I've never had a vehicle before that created so much brake dust.
I don't know what you guys are using but once a year at 50k miles +/-. I've never had a problem after switching to this many many years ago. I'll bet i use my brakes often in a year use.
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