Brakes over heating?

[Hylander]

Truck was having no issues prior.
Installed new front pads and now they smell like they are over heating.
That smell you get when behind a semi braking coming down the mountain.
I am not getting any brake fade, brake peddle feels fine with normal braking power.
Calipers do not seem to be sticking.
Ideas ?

 

[Rlaf75]

Brake pads may generate an odor when they are new. Next time you smell them try to find a driveway or parking lot with a slight grade to it and stop the truck, put it in neutral and see if it rolls on its own. If it doesn't your caliper(s) is binding up. Did you service the calipers when you had them off to make sure the caliper pins move freely and arent sticking? Did you by chance kink or twist the brake hose when you put them back on? Take the wheels of again and double check your work

 

[Hylander]

Brake pads may generate an odor when they are new. Next time you smell them try to find a driveway or parking lot with a slight grade to it and stop the truck, put it in neutral and see if it rolls on its own. If it doesn't your caliper(s) is binding up. Did you service the calipers when you had them off to make sure the caliper pins move freely and arent sticking? Did you by chance kink or twist the brake hose when you put them back on? Take the wheels of again and double check your work

I did try to see if rolled on its own several times and it did. Pins moved freely. Brake lines are not twisted. I'll pull the wheels again in a couple days.

 

[Rlaf75]

I did try to see if rolled on its own several times and it did. Pins moved freely. Brake lines are not twisted. I'll pull the wheels again in a couple days.

Make sure the brakes are hot when you see if it rolls. Like I said, new pads may have an odor until the break in

 

[Mojo88]

Use a small handheld IR gun to measure rotor temps. That will tell you for sure, if they are actually hot, and which ones are too hot.

Buy one of these, they are sold everywhere:

 

[work truck ram]

could just be pads bedding into the small grooves in the rotor if you didn't swap them too.

 

[Bighorn_Brown]

Also, you might want to verify you installed the pads in the proper place.

In other words… there is an inside pad, and an outside pad. Two of the pads will have slight bumps on the top, while the other two do not.

These humps install on the inside up against the caliper piston(s). They ride inside the open top portion of the caliper.

If the order is reversed those raised areas can become snagged on the outside top portion of the caliper as there’s no clearance for it to move smoothly.

Thus, the raised areas becoming pinched between the top of the caliper while the pad braking surface stays in contact with the rotor.

Continued operation in this state will prematurely wear out the pads, and potentially damage the rotor.

Suggest removing wheels and verify caliper still has “free-float” movement. If not, you possibly did what I just explained…

 

[Tominator223]

Sometimes they’ll stink for a few 100 miles. Could be as bighorn says as well

 

[Big_Bill]

I didn't see where you said what pads you installed. Could you tell us?