My squeaky front brakes are driving me mad! I greased the contact points of the pads, added some more Ford brake grease to the pins, and even applied some CRC stop-squeal but none of that helped. What else can I try? Do I need to clean out the old grease from the caliper pins? That doesn't seem like it would do much and the pins float freely but clearly something else is needed. My Wagner thermoquiet pads and Bosch rotors only have 3kmi on them, btw, and they were quiet at first.

 

He's a Drakkar man.

 

Yea the original set ups suck, one of the best parts with going with the Expy/7700 swap are the pin set ups. HD, virtually maintenance free. Slide so much better...and they don't heat up and dry out. The original set ups just don't work well for long. You won't need none of that stuff you mentioned to quite them down. Just the 3M clear silicon for the pins.

 

So it's a general caliper wear issue?

 

If you want it call it that, they're just not a strong/solid enough pin chamber design, poorly machined as well...no beef there.. They may work well right after servicing the pins, but it doesn't last. Was always screwing with them before upgrading to what they should of had in the first place.

Page advance isn't happening again.

 

Well I've been contemplating the brake upgrade, anyways, so maybe it's just time to pull that trigger. Otherwise I may go off the deep end. :P

 

Googled....nothing lol

 

Giving up on that one haha.

 

AFA Thermoquiets, I don't think you get them anymore...or changed them. I don't remember exactly, I think they went ceramic. Anyway, you want to stay away from ceramic pads. Wagner still has a good pad but you to go their HD version which are called something else now...not thermoquiet. Just so you know. The 150's are heavy enough you want stick with a metallic pad for stopping power, specially when 90* and above. Wagner has the pads, go by a different name now.

 

Yeah, do think I may have gotten one of the first sets of ceramics but I can't be sure. I really hate to buy pads again - you may recall I had to do three sets of pads when I was working through what ultimately turned out to be a bad throttle body right after I bought the truck last year.