Lube Your Brakes

[Flynt]

I had new rear brake rotors and pads installed on my Toyota Tundra a few weeks ago and the technician found one of the slider pins was frozen and caused uneven pad wear. How often should the slider pins be lubed?

 

[Mike N]

Anytime the brakes are serviced the pins should be cleaned, lubed and the slider boots should be inspected and/or replaced.

Honestly I'm surprised that you had frozen sliders in a southern salt free state..... up here in Western NY we see that all the time.

 

[Flynt]

Mike, I stood there and watched the tech do the work and he showed me the rubber slider boot was not covering the pin correctly. Water must have caused the pin to rust or seize.

It is nice not to have rust problems from the use of road salt in my location. I don't have to store my collector cars and I can drive them 12 months if I wish.

Thanks for your information.

 

[Mike N]

Around here we whip out the torch on anything more than two or three years old.

I should be used to it after 35 years in the business...... but it still amazes me how fast things sieze up in a salted environment.

 

[ssupercoolss]

i find the front disc brakes on my toyota to be really finicky. the pads slide into the calipers pretty tight, and i have found living in the salt belt the grime/crap gets all in there, creates some rust, and the pads get really tight or seized in the caliper. This is kind of a maintenance item for me....everyonce in a while i need to take the pads out, sometimes with great force, to clean up the areas the edges rest in the calipers.

 

[CorkyE]

I can honestly say that I can't recall lubing the sliders on my DD 05 Silverado with 200K+ miles. Just a different situation down here.

 

[djorgensen3]

I just did new front rotors and pads on my 2014 due to uneven pad wear. The ears that slide into the abuttment bracket were very tight on the old ones as well as the new ones so I took a little off the ears of the new ones so they slide more easily. Lubed everything up and they work great. So I decided to do the rears and found one pin almost seized with no lube on it. Only reason I looked at them was because I had just driven down a watered down dirt road and they started squealing real bad. Even here in Az stuff can seize up but I sure am happy to not deal with rust and salt.

 

[Knuckle Dragger]

I run metallic pads so I take them off every 5,000 miles and hit the face with WD40, I don't want them rusting up.

 

[Flynt]

i find the front disc brakes on my toyota to be really finicky. the pads slide into the calipers pretty tight, and i have found living in the salt belt the grime/crap gets all in there, creates some rust, and the pads get really tight or seized in the caliper. This is kind of a maintenance item for me....everyonce in a while i need to take the pads out, sometimes with great force, to clean up the areas the edges rest in the calipers.

What model Toyota do you have?

 

[ssupercoolss]

What model Toyota do you have?

2011 tacoma