Bought alum lite weight yesterday

ROYALOAK62

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If it’s anything like my son’s F150 with it’s turbos, it’s a screamer.
But my son didn’t like the brakes that much, so he up’d the size with the first brake job.

Dave
 

Jim Sullivan

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I thought I would see a nice shinny new aluminum car trailer, not a F%#d. My father in law just got a new F150 a couple months ago. It spent a few weeks in the shop with under a 1000 mikes on it. They were tracking down an issue with the four wheel drive hubs. After it wiped out a couple of hubs they tracked the problem to a bad vacuum switch. What a screwy locking hub design.
 

blkblk63ss

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I thought I would see a nice shinny new aluminum car trailer, not a F%#d. My father in law just got a new F150 a couple months ago. It spent a few weeks in the shop with under a 1000 mikes on it. They were tracking down an issue with the four wheel drive hubs. After it wiped out a couple of hubs they tracked the problem to a bad vacuum switch. What a screwy locking hub design.
Good thing Mike is in brake business and sell's rotors because if they haven't improved brakes since 2012 and lower when I retired we was either resurfacing rotors front and rear or replacing like they were going out of style. Even had a lot of repeats on same vehicles many times after a period of time. They would shutter so bad . We resurfaced on the vehicle with a on hub lathe ,so they were done correct.They knew they had a problem as warranty seemed to cover them even after basic warranty was out within reason of time.
 

1958 delivery

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You guys crack me up. With 13.7" rotors all the way around, fronts are 1.3" thick and rears are 1" thick, the brakes are awesome
 

blkblk63ss

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Did you trade your other truck in,.?? Can't remember what it was , but I did remember at the time I liked it. Maybe brakes are better these days.
 

Ishiftem

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Both my 02 and 06 f250 4x4 diesels went 75,000 on the fronts and the backs still had plenty of life.
 
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