Wife says honey the brakes went out on the excursion so I look and this is what I find



with the inboard pad backing sitting between the shield and rotor at the bottom. Asked her why she didn't say anything about the grinding noise and she said she didn't think it was that bad yet (I drive the F-150 daily, She drives the Excursion). I love her to death but %$#@!

 

Mein Gott in Himmell!

That's enough to paralyze me with rage, cause an eye twitch, and calmly ask her to step away and go inside until I'm done fixing it....

I don't want to know how something like that happens, but damn!

 

She came out to see and all I could do was the "honey go in the house" "but..." "honey just go in the house". I've been messing with the F-150 so much lately I probably haven't even driven in the X in over a month, that's why i've been such a stranger in the X section, someday i'll finish one of my projects instead of jumping around to each one like i've got A.D.D.

 

Ay ya ya carumba. Now that is bad , real bad. I cannot imagine that it was even metal on metal. Smoke must have been coming out of the rim holes. Well at least you kept your calm. The most inportant part though even though you are beyond mad is that she is safe and nobody got hurt due to the mistake. I alwasy say metal can be replaced but the person whom we love cannot. I now you will get it back to as good as new. She probably feels real bad too. Maybe you can use it to your advantage to do something new to the X.

 

Wow! All I can is "been there, done that" with my wife. Not quite that bad though. I stopped trying to understand, reason, train, etc. I now just make it a point to drive her car at least one every week or so.

Sorry Dude. I feel your pain.

 

I'm pretty sure you can get those rotors turned. Smooth them right out. Think of the divits as little cooling ports.

Feel for you brother. Always nice to go out to the barn and find the leaf blower in pieces. Literally pieces.

Me: Were you going to say anything about it?
Her: I didn't think it was that major.
Me: Was it working when you got it out?
Her: Yes.
Me: What happened?
Her: I don't know. It just stopped working.

Got to love it.

 

Pardon my ignorance, what kinda of events lead to this situation with the break system? I mean what caved in first? I have had worn out rotor but this I cannot explain.

 

Pad wears completely down to metal backing, wife keeps driving even tho vehicle is making grinding sounds while braking, metal backing plate quickly wears out and quickly eat through rotors, rotors crumble to nothing, and then the calipers are chewed up by wasted rotors.

That would be my educated guess.


To the OP, I guess you'll be driving the Excursion more often huh? lol

Oh, and I guess this just give you an excuse to put some shiney new, upgraded parts on there. She can't say anything about what you spend on it.

 

That is pretty Bad,,chunks flying,,,yikes,,,But I have seen worse!!!! A guy I worked with in 99/00',,Had a 96' F-350 PS.4x4, dump,,,He mentioned he had to do his Brakes,,,but he kept on driving it,,,,One day we went to look at a Job,,,He says jump in,,,,off we go,,,,come to the first stop sign,,,he starts Braking and this whiiiiii-rrrrrrrrrr-iiiiingg sound is coming from the Front end,,,,I was like ''What the Hell was that",,,,my Brakes,,,he says,,,,I wanted to Jump Out the truck!!!

So a day or so later he pulls it apart,,,,,one hole side of the rotor was GONE,,,,the Caliper had worn right through to the cooling fins inside the Rotor,,,the whiiiirrrrrring sound was the fins hits the caliper when he applied the Brakes,,,amazingly the rotor stayed together somehow!

The truck got him back though,,,the same side he had to replace the caliper mount,,etc from all the Carnage,,,when he was beating on the Hub(older style front end) with a Hammer and Block of wood,,,Hammer Glanced of something,,,and Broke his Hand,,,Narly looking mess !

 

Holy crap! "Wow" is right!

Damn....wow....

Stewart

 

Wow-I'm glad you caught it before your wife got hurt. I guess the rotor could make a neat clock for the dining room or something!! I think most of us have been there. I am still trying to get my wife to understand that all tires are not "run-flats"!!

 

Oh yeah both trucks (me) are going to be getting something cool for christmas, without hearing a word about it

 

Ya'll give the lady a break, By God! Most women don't mention problems until they

look out the driver door window and see their own tire and wheel passing by them!

 

WOW!!!. We went off roading and friend with a D-max as his tow rig had to work late so he didn't leave with the rest of us. It is an 8 hour drive to we were going. He said he lasted about 4 hours and let his wife drive. He Jeep is on his car hauler behind them. He falls asleep with her driving. When he wakes up he said it looked like the Hailey's Comet is following behind them. He tells her to pull over and she says "But we're making good time". When they pull over, he finds they had had a blowout god knows how many miles back and had been running on what was left of the rim. The whole bead edge had been ground off of the rim LOL.

 

Alright boys, we aren't all that bad! Some of us girls not only look sexy in our big trucks but we know how to tinker with em too. Give ur ladies a break, you picked em!