robbieyukon
07-20-2010, 10:08 PM
I did my brakes today on my '06. I have owned the truck since new and most of the miles are highway and I tow horses a few times a month. My rotors and pads had a ton of material left. The pads were glazed & cracked and the rotors were rusting badly on the inside. I replaced everything with A/C Delco parts because the factory stuff worked so well.
fireguy2
07-20-2010, 10:43 PM
Wow.... 150k.. That's great!! Hope you get 150k out of the next set!!
bigfellastrain
07-21-2010, 12:11 PM
182k and still on the original front brakes. the rear rotors were turned and the pads replaced at 173k. I am with you the stock brakes last really well.
Aaron71
07-29-2010, 03:01 AM
I've got 217,000 miles with original everything. The Transmission is the ticket.
Salmonbum
07-29-2010, 10:01 AM
I got 118k on original stuff. Reason they needed to be changed was the rotors were rusted. Did the change in 4/09. I put 80k on the truck in the 1st 2 yrs, then I stopped driving it as much. I think the sitting actually hurt it. The rear pads had some life, but the fronts were plenty good.
I changed them while up north, so resources were limited. I just bought Autozone pads/rotors, but the best they had. Since the change, I have only put about 10k on them. The truck wasn't stopping well so I redid them this week. When I did the original change I didn't know about cleaning behind the clips. The rear pads were stuck in place was the 1st problem, the 2nd was the front pads were glazed over and the front driver’s rotor has some rust on the top inside edge, so something was up, it may have been since I used Anti-seize not allowing caliper to move freely.
When I started this "new" swap, I didn't know the problems. I stopped at AutoZone and got some new rear pads so I could do the rears and the return the old pads for credit, and then the next day do the fronts. I pulled the rears and cleaned behind the clips and repainted. I bought AutoZone clips, but they were way to tall and thick. I just cleaned the stick clips and reused. I then ground the opening on the new pads so they would fit better. I had them sliding like butter. Put everything back together using brake grease and all went well.
I did the fronts the following day, but I had to run to my mom’s work (GM dealer) beforehand. I picked up some GM front pads with clips for $45 (I get a good deal) since I had to do so much modifying to AZone pads. I did the same for fronts as I did rears, but when I saw the front rotor was rusted, I ran it up to Azone and got two free rotor and they gave me my money back for the front pads. Now the truck stops on a dime!