After 150K, I had the left front caliper stick. I did get it cooled and limped home but it is time to replace them. The question is with what? Just remans or nice, 'loaded' Centrics from Rock Auto?
04 RWD, the rotor has a little shake in it now and the bearing got pretty hot too, so I'm thinking rotors also. Ideas??

 

Advanc eauto has them in strock (usually). Always replace rotor and caliper if it got hot

 

Unless the rotor got warped there's not real reason to swap the rotor.

I don't even swap rotors when I change pads. Like 3000mile oil changes people just don't know what to do when servicing brakes.

If you rotors are good (proper thickness and do not not shudder when brakes are applied) you're just throwing money away when you blindly swap rotors when you change pads.

 

If he overheated them there is a good chance they warped

 

The manual (and common sense) is pretty clear. Drive the car and lightly apply the brakes. If the steering or pedal do not 'pulse' (aka you feel the rotors are warped) they are, quite simply, not warped.

Rotors have an allowable runout.. so unless you can 'feel' the rotors then there is not need to replace them.

Again, SM FTW!

 

Kept working on them until I found out that as composition pistons come out they absorb moisture and when pressed back in they stick intermittently coming out again .
Remans are the way to go . But once it heats up the bearing pressed into rotor the prudent thing is to replace the rotor with bearing .
I did replace my hub assembly later with the centrics so I could just replace the rotor same as 4x4 and not touch bearings or replace one time use shaft nut .

 

The pistons are phenolic, basically plastic. So yeah, heat can damage them. But the symptoms of a damaged piston are vastly different than a warped rotor.

"But once it heats up the bearing pressed into rotor the prudent thing is to replace the rotor with bearing ."

WHAAA???? The rotor has a bearing? You must not be using standard nomenclature. HUB has a bearing but not the brake rotor.

I'm done here.. you're just saying random parts.

 

No, he's not mentioning random parts, he's just been turning wrenches for a few years....

If it's a 2WD the rotor most certainly has a bearing in it, and if it has been overheated, the prudent thing to do is replace it.

The hubs you're referring to are in the 4wd trucks and some 2wd which have had the centric rotor swap done.

Never assume, there are many people on here who know these trucks better than you do, and many of us with beat up hands who have been turning wrenches for years who aren't "just saying random parts".

 

2wd uses a spindle with a bearing pressed onto the rotor.
4wd uses a knuckle and the rotor just slides over the 4wd hub and studs that houses the bearing.
2 totally different animals.

Rotors are dirt cheap at advanced auto if you buy online with coupon codes and pick them up in the store..

 

I'll admit that I have no idea about the 2WD trucks.