Brake woes

[briangcc]

Brian you win. Turns out the caliper was no good. That’s two brand new ( remanufactured) calipers from Auto Zone. Technically you could say three because I had the shop replace both sides with OEM while they were at it. That’ll teach me to buy cheap parts. Always a crap shoot. Never again.

Damn. This is one where I hate being right.

On a Sierra 1500, I went through 3 different shipments of Powerstop rotors (about 15 years ago) cause they kept sending the wrong rotors. I had 6 bolt lugs and the rotors were 5 bolt. Don't ever get these, the drilled/slotted rotors delam'd in under 10k miles.

On a Tundra, the rear rotors weren't turned right so to get my truck to move without squeaking, I had to remove both e-brakes. Shop ended up turning the rotors for me and reassembling the e-brakes.

 

[Scott Danforth]

I have concert Tees older than the crew at my last job. New position I got to staff with a few grey-beards that have worked for me in the past. Our little group of 4 puts out more new products than the group of 20 folks in the new product group on the RV side

 

[Renken2000Classic]

I'm thinking I might like to upgrade to a '99 or 2,000 eventually (lol). Ok, that's a small exaggeration.

The '97 Suburban has over 200k on it and runs like new, essentially. I've put about 70k of that on in the last 12+ years, and have done zero tune-up type work on it. Very well taken care of before us. And well made, apparently.

 

[matt167]

The 6.6 gas trucks are rock solid. It’s more than a stroked 6.2. They have no AFM/DFM and use 5w30 oil. only downfall is the transmission may have a defect but the 2024s are not under the recall.

The 6.2 L87 recall that is blowing up the internet has effected a very small percentage of the trucks within the recall. They have a bigger chance of lifter failure ( as the 5.3L has as well ) and the lifter failure isn’t the reason for the recall. Only 1/2 ton GM that is a safe enough buy is the 2.7L

Also consider that a Colorado/ Canyon 4x4 is priced right near $45-50k same as a decently equipped 1/2 ton and then a decently equipped 3/4 ton is in the same ballpark price.