EastWestHemi
Senior Member
- Joined
- Feb 25, 2017
- Posts
- 161
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- 77
- Location
- Out West
- Ram Year
- 2016 2500
- Engine
- 6.4 w/4.10s
Just changed my OEM brakes, front and rear today at 71k miles. Quite happy with their lifespan. Had to beat the rotors off with a sledgehammer, parking brakes were fine, they get exercised often. I had a small rear axle seal weep on passenger side rear— didn’t have a new inner seal and didn’t really want to dive into it right now, so buttoned it up and will tackle another time and change the bearing while I’m at it.
Decided to replace with Napa ultra premium pads and Napa adaptive One slotted rotors. Amazingly all the OEM pads were even, probably could have squeezed another 5k miles out of them, but not worth the safety risk.
New rotors are super nice, got the whole package 20% off, paid $930 out the door. Did get a quote from a local CDJR dealer for the economy mopar rotors and pads for around $1300 installed. Doing the work myself saved me money for much better product. After the grease, brake cleaner, penatrating fluid and a c clamp I was more like $1000 for everything.
I took my time and cleaned the caliper brackets really well, only had to file down three brake pads slightly to slide smoothly.
I haven’t felt my brake peddle this far up in a long time, feels nice. No need for write up and instructions, Ram brake job videos are a plenty on YouTube.
Anyone else squeeze 71k miles out of their OEM brakes? 50k miles of town and highway and 20k miles towing 6-14k trailers. My truck is 7400lbs, but having a hemi and not a Cummins must help with brake longevity.
Decided to replace with Napa ultra premium pads and Napa adaptive One slotted rotors. Amazingly all the OEM pads were even, probably could have squeezed another 5k miles out of them, but not worth the safety risk.
New rotors are super nice, got the whole package 20% off, paid $930 out the door. Did get a quote from a local CDJR dealer for the economy mopar rotors and pads for around $1300 installed. Doing the work myself saved me money for much better product. After the grease, brake cleaner, penatrating fluid and a c clamp I was more like $1000 for everything.
I took my time and cleaned the caliper brackets really well, only had to file down three brake pads slightly to slide smoothly.
I haven’t felt my brake peddle this far up in a long time, feels nice. No need for write up and instructions, Ram brake job videos are a plenty on YouTube.
Anyone else squeeze 71k miles out of their OEM brakes? 50k miles of town and highway and 20k miles towing 6-14k trailers. My truck is 7400lbs, but having a hemi and not a Cummins must help with brake longevity.