Sorry guys I'm too lazy to search. Need to replace the Rotors and Pads in the front. 5.4, 4x4, rotors on all 4's, very light hauling and towing, mostly commuting, slightly spirited driving style. With all the debate over cross drilled/ slotted vs. blanks which is best for the weight of our trucks? I have used Power Stop cross drilled in the past on different vehicles and thought they worked really well but would high quality blanks worked just as well ?? Gonna need to buy in a couple days so your opinions would be greratly appreciated !! Also, which pads... read the Hawk (non superduty) pads were really good. Opinions??
I have the reactive one rotors from napa (slotted, very nice but not cheap) and im also running the adaptive one brakes pads all the way around ( ceramic pads) again not cheap but im running 35s so i wanted to be able to stop. The rotors and pads will yank my truck to a stop in a hurry. I used to work at napa so i got the parts at cost which is the only way i could afford this setup haha heres some links http://www.napaonline.com/Catalog/C...102001+50028+2028020+26344&Ar=AND(P_RecType:A) http://www.napaonline.com/Catalog/C...102001+50028+2028020+26302&Ar=AND(P_RecType:A) http://www.napaonline.com/Catalog/C...102001+50028+2028020+26302&Ar=AND(P_RecType:A)
Thanks Danny! There's just so much confusing crap on the net on this subject. been on a Honda, supra forum where they say your an idiot if you buy drilled/slotted but on a tundra forum an article says they are great. Not sure if its because of the weight difference or not. Also I've read that if you Tow or haul a lot then DO NOT use ceramic pads. You say your using ceramic and they work great. I just want to be able to lock up all four wheels if I need to and still last 30-50k miles. I can deal with a little noise and dust (i have mud tires anyway) as long as they work!
honestly, slotted and drilled rotors dont make a huge difference unless your racing around and doing consistent hard breaking ( which is why i put them on my mustang ) but the other thing slotted or drilled rotors do that are good for trucks is that they shed water and mud very well. so something to consider, you might not pickup a ton of stopping power but come to wet conditions you will. Also about the ceramic pads. Idk why people would say no to ceramic pads for towing or hauling, ( maybe they suggest using the severe duty ones which im hoenstly not sure of the make up of them ) but the ceramic pads have great temperature holdout. Meaning as the breaks heat up from hard breaking repeatadly or from stopping a trailer they dont suffer as much from brake fade. So i honestly dont know their reasoning for saying that. With the setup on my truck right now i can either lockup all the brakes whenever i want or i can stop it so hard that that it compresses the front suspension by like a couple inches ( i do have worn shocks but it stops hard an fast if i want it too) i actually had someone cut me off today and i had to slam the brakes an man those things grip hard. Just my two cents. Ive done alot of brake jobs and if you arent doing anything crazy or above what the truck is rated for then OEM materials would work and slotted rotors and ceramic pads are better than the OEM so it could only benefit from them. Thats my thinking at least
They say no to ceramic when towing because the pad may resist heat but that heat has to go somewhere... it goes into your rotors. I have had ceramic on several vehicles over the years and haven't had any problem with them but I don't pull a big toy hauler around either. I do like the low dusting properties of them. I just put ceramics on our Escape Sunday, as a matter of fact. I'm running Wagner Thermoquiets all around on my truck and don't have any complaints. They are a really low dust pad for being semi-metallic. I actually purchased drilled and slotted rotors for the Escape to try out but they sent the wrong ones and wound up not having the rotors to fit it, so I just had the factories turned. I've never had drilled or slotted on anything else and have never had any issues with solid rotors.
