Headed home from work last night and made the last stop before turing on to my street and heard a gawd-awful grinding noise from the rear end. Pulled into the driveway and heard it again. Popped the rear wheels off and sure enough, rear pads are toast. Kind of confusing becasue when I rotated tires about 3 weeks ago, I had a good 3/16" of pad left on the rears. (Then again, the wife drove the truck for a weekend so who knows what the hell she did to it)
In any case, I got all the goodies to replace the brakes in the rear and as expected, one rotor is toast. I mic'd it and it appears as if I'll be able to get it turned without going below the 28mm min thickness.. However, try as I might, I can't get the [bleep]ing rotor off..
Called the dealer I bought the parts from and they told me the rotor should just slide off.. After struggling to try and get the thing off for an hour, I called another dealer who told me I had to pull the axles out but then said he thought that was only on the duallys..
Of course, now that I really need it, I can find my CD with the service info on it to look at an exploded drawing of the brakes..
Anyone got the "trick" to pulling rotors on this:
2002 F350 V10 4WD Crew Cab Long Bed 4.30 LSD E40D tranny White with graphite interior. :)Thx