My bosses 06, my 05, my 06 f-350 work truck, my freinds 06 all have had brake calipers totally freeze up all of them under 50,000 miles, two of them under 30,000 miles.. Is this a ford thing for these trucks, or are we just having bad luck, lol!!
Just curious..

 

I have had all stock brakes on my truck right now and im at 55k and they still work just as good as the day I bought them and I use my truck for work and am towing my boat, snowmobiles and mower trailer all the time, must have been just some bad luck or something or maybe I just have good luck. Where in ny are you?

 

Ihave had several Fords, never a problem. I have 93,000 on my truck, just changed teh pads again. First time at 11,000 for the dust, this time because I thought it was time.

 

see it more often on superdutys, these are usually the trucks with rotors that have cooling fins plugged with mud and need to chip a few inches of mud off the calipers before I can do anything..do you do anyhting that may be overheating the brakes? towing lots? brakestands?

 

is it rust that is causing them to freeze up? cause there are just mounds of salt on the roads here about five-six months out of the year that may be causing it.

 

depdends on road conditions (salt/sand/mud/etc.) and who did the brakes last.

i refuse to get my brakes done by anyone other than myself... not only because its expensive to get it done for such an easy job.. but also... when i do them i grease the hell out of the caliper slides.

most frozen calipers ive seen is from the slides being bone dry and getting water in.. rusting, deforming, and freezing.

 

Yup, that is exactly what does it. I had the calipers freeze up twice on my old F-150 (once drivers side, once passenger), and a few times on my old taurus. I now pull everything apart and grease the hell out of it when I replace the brake pads...no problems since.

 

when i say frozen caliper im not speaking of the slides...im talking about the actual piston.

 

My front left caliper is seized with a cracked piston, cant afford to fix it yet. I can still drive without it grabbing though, but if I get on the brakes really hard then it will stick for a few mins.

 

Ballston spa ny, 2hrs away from you it looks like, lol! I tow my snowmobiles, thats about it. The work f350 hauls alot, but thats what its build for, its a dualie rack bed.

No we dont do any of that, no off roading either. All these trucks are meticulously washed and waxed, especially the work truck.

Yes rust looks to be the culprit, lol!!

Same here..

On my 05 just redid entire front brakes last week. Both calipers had completely cracked and flaking pistons, rusted solid open.. Slides looked new and full of grease.

 

the salt on the roads here sucks, I wish they just used sand on the roads like they do once you go a half hour north of I-90 it would definitely keep all of us nice truck owners a little happier.

 

if you guys in syracuse think you have it bad... imagine this. im only 75 miles north of you, but im on a military base.

since everyone here is NOT from here, and for whatever reason the army thinks its funny to bring all the guys from down south (im from texas) up here to be stationed in the nny snow..... nobody knows how to drive once the snow falls.

so they oversalt the roads like crazy. im talking 5 salt trucks running 24 hours all winter. and this isnt a big army base.

it sucks.