Brakes

Sunday the 16th we are heading to the country to do 3 brake jobs

Ill post more info on Monday

Part Number Ford (factory part)- F75Z-2001-AA

http://www.f150online.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28058

From F150Online Lightning Forum

Hawk Brakes- http://www.hawkbrake.com/material.htm
HPS: HB299-F-650
HP Plus: HB299-N-650
HP Black: not available
HP Blue: not available

Porterfield- http://www.porterfield-brakes.com/
R4-S: AP702
R4 Carbon Kevlar: not available

Performance Friction- http://www.performancefriction.com/
Standard Carbon Metallic: 0702.20
Z-Rated: 0702.10

Doing 3 brakes jobs in an afternoon and getting lots of pictures is a bit much for us amateurs

Three Lightnings ready for brake work

New Pad on top old pad on bottom.  You can see that the left side is worn more than the right on the old pad.  the left is almost to the rivets.  The outside pad has a wear squealer on it but we know of at least one lightning that lost a pad completely and never squealed.

Here is Moonshine working in the bearings and seals

Jack stands securely under my truck

The spindle after the rotor has been removed and the grease cleaned off

Go_rila is protected while we go get the rotors turned and get lunch

This is the thing to use to vacuum bleed brakes.  
It is deans AC vacuum pump it works great for flushing and bleeding the brakes

Here is the caliper hanging from a coat hanger with old pads still installed. 
The pads we took off were worn unevenly both front to back and top to bottom on the same pad.
The reason this is important is that a visual inspection MAY NOT give you an honest look at the condition of the pads.

The easy way to change pads is to pull the 18 mm bolts off the back of the caliper and remove both the caliper and the cage pictured above.  Then remove the  torx bolts ( size 45)  and pull the caliper from the cage and the pads will snap right out.  Don't mess with the tin keepers at the top and bottom of the caliper.  You don't need to remove them to pull the pads.  The pads hook on the top keeper and snap into the bottom one.  We didn't get any close-ups but if you look you will see what I mean

Putting the bearings and seals back in the rotors. 
The seals came out real easy and were in perfect shape so we reused them after we repacked the bearings

Clean Castrol LMA after the job is done. 
Before we started the reservoir looked like it had dark maple syrup in it.

We killed (2) 6 point 18mm craftsman sockets trying to get the calipers off the truck.  I guess Moonshine doesn't know his own strength since he busted these with no air tools

After my 12 gauge sat in the closet for ten years we shot some clay pigeons while the sun was setting
This is Silver_2000 shooting and Moonshine working the antique thrower that works great

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Here is Moonshine throwing for Sixpipes.  Sixpipes looks cleaner than me

Beautiful country.