Front brake pads, should I use lube?

Ah that's hot!

 

I should have bought all new hardware like that! Mine was still fine, just not pretty.

 

I appreciate the insite. There is a noise I should chase instead of throwing parts at it. I have a manual tranny, I engine brake pretty well, and my truck has been lightly used. If 50k is early then I probably have lots of pad left.

There is a sounds that annoys me, I can hear it when the windows are down. It's constant, quiet, and it changes with the ground speed of the vechical. It also goes away when I give a slight brake tap. So I was thinking it was the tweeters telling me the pads are gone. I had no idea there was a secondary spring kit to prevent this from happening.

 

I just had some noise (low grinding sound) front the front of my 2009. Figured it was brakes but I couldn't feel anything in the pedal. Visual inspection with wheel on showed lots of pad life left. When I removed the wheel I saw that one of the inside caliper pistons was siezed and wore my pad diaginally all the way down the backing plate. New pad, new rotor, new caliper. Gas milage gas gone up 3mpg since.

Does it drive straight under hard braking?

 

I lubricate any moving part on the caliper assembly, especially up here in Canada.

 

Seems to drive straight under hard brakeing.

I live in a hard winter/salt on the roads area. I'm definatly going to have to jack up and take off the front wheels this weekend for a look. Probably be cleaning/lubing everything up in the front. Damn road salt.

 

Ooh what brake pads and rotors are those? Love em!

 

I also dab a little grease on the back side of the pads. Not anything heavy, just where it touches the pistons.

 

In addition to lubing the pins, I use the red anti squeal goop on the back of the pads at contact areas to the caliper. The one time I didn't on my Audi the damn thing sounded like a railroad locomotive doing an emergency stop.

 

Noise does not necessarily mean you need new pads...