chrisbh17
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I guess my concern is what to do to keep the slides moving? I clean the rust and grime out and I use brake parts grease on all surfaces but I feel like unless this is done regularly it’s bound to wear off and seize again before the next brake job. I worked at a Chevy dealership years ago that would upsell an oil change with a “brake cleaning” where they would clean everything on the truck with a Mobil parts cleaner then re grease everything with out taking it off. To me that seemed counter productive.
I’m buying decent quality brakes so I’m doing the best I can to do it right but I feel like it’s inevitable to happen again. After all my truck only has 44k miles on it. It’s a 2016. I consider that “newish”
All of my Nissans were known for brake issues like that. Brake performance on them was spectacular, but they would eat up calipers quickly because the pins would seize. Honestly, the pins are cheap enough you might be better off just replacing them at a given time interval. I use SilGlyde as the caliper lube, but there are other products out there too. Yes, Im in rust/salt country, but every pin I pulled out of them had no grease (boots tore...make sure to replace them too, if thats the case!) or the grease was rock hard. I also think some of the issue is the grease packing into the end of the slider bore, preventing the slider from going in and out the correct amount.
Yeah i wouldnt waste money on a under coating rust will happen no matter what when salt is involved. just a matter of time and how much you wanna spend on under coating. i would find a cheap jeep like he said and drive it to the wheels fall off then take it to the scrap yard and get money for the steel.
My truck is now basically 2 years old and the undercarriage looks like it did the day I brought it home. Highly doubt it would be the same way if I had not undercoated it. In my case, I do it myself, so its just cost of materials ($65 for a gallon of Corrosion Free) and 4 hours or so of actual work...most of which is my OCD causing me to remove the inner fender wells, rocker plugs, etc. Part of the reason for my purchasing my RAM was the rust happening on my Frontier, so I know it can (will?) happen eventually, but I also know the "sore spots" and since I had it from new, I can take care of the RAM from day 1.