What did you do with your truck/shop today

[Jsdirt]

Green stuff. If that's their lowest dust I don't want to see high dust [emoji38]

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This explains the high dust you experienced with the green pads - found this on their site:

 

Truck Yellowstuff Sport brake pads are not rated as low dust and create similar dust to OEM pads. If lower dust is what you seek, Greenstuff 7000 is the most favourable option but will dust more with heavy vehicles.

 

 

 

 

 

While on the site, I see they now have 2 Yellows and only one Green. There was only one Yellow when i bought mine, as far as I knew then. My receipt says, DP41742R Yellowstuff Street and Track brake pad.

Edited August 27, 2016 by Jsdirt

[SarahsGMC]

Full time job now? I remember you used to work in a factory of some sort if I recall correctly

No still side work

What's all involved in detailing a truck?

Cleaning everything

 

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[Chris]

Looks like it fits good.

The dash trim and iDatalink Maestro cost more than the radio. The dash trim was $185. The Pioneer AVH-X3700BHS was $230 on Amazon. Then the Idatalink bits such as the Maestro Rr and the F01 T-harness brought the crutchfield bill to almost $300. Then my install labor. That was 5 hours of me getting gray hair. Came out a little ahead, took longer than i thought and at 104 degrees outside, my garage reminded me of a Florida summer. I will not be installing radios for anyone else for a long time

[kstruckcountry]

Which series they have two green stuff series.

 

 

Ryan

Previous 2000 Silverado had two rear brake changes (one under warranty) before 50k miles. These lasted 64,885

 

 

Ryan

I'd assume the 7000, the ones I had were supposed to be the best for off road use. But maybe the abrasive environment was hard on them? To my knowledge I'm still on the original brake shoes. If they aren't original, they have over 60,000 miles on them, I really am easy on brakes.

 

The Delco pads really aren't great as far as stopping power, but they'll lock the wheels up. If I really wanted brake power, I'd copy Spurshot and go to big rotor. And hydro boost.

 

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[LongrangeLauber]

I'd assume the 7000, the ones I had were supposed to be the best for off road use. But maybe the abrasive environment was hard on them? To my knowledge I'm still on the original brake shoes. If they aren't original, they have over 60,000 miles on them, I really am easy on brakes.

 

The Delco pads really aren't great as far as stopping power, but they'll lock the wheels up. If I really wanted brake power, I'd copy Spurshot and go to big rotor. And hydro boost.

 

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I did the write up on the hydroboost and also upgraded the fronts to the bigger 13" or 14" rotors (cant remember) as well as the dual piston rear SUV calipers as well as stainless braided lines (all on my 02 of course). That truck stopped as well as my new truck does

[RyanbabZ71]

I'd assume the 7000, the ones I had were supposed to be the best for off road use. But maybe the abrasive environment was hard on them? To my knowledge I'm still on the original brake shoes. If they aren't original, they have over 60,000 miles on them, I really am easy on brakes.

 

The Delco pads really aren't great as far as stopping power, but they'll lock the wheels up. If I really wanted brake power, I'd copy Spurshot and go to big rotor. And hydro boost.

 

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Mine are 6000 series

 

 

Ryan

[Jsdirt]

On a different part of their site - hate when sites do that. Just put all the info where we can see ALL of it, WTF.

 

Says there's a 2000, 6000, & 7000 series green. 2k for small cars, 6k for trucks, 7k is the low-dust version of the 6k.

[LongrangeLauber]

Oil change, tire rotation and plugged a tire on a work van today. Also applied rain-x to 3 of the most used trucks and mounted new rain-x branded hybrid wipers to them as well. Throughout next week I'll apply it to the other vans and trucks. It was just too hot to do today, got a late start as well. Now hopefully these guys won't gripe about not being able to see in the rain lol, I personally believe this should be applied to every windshield out there. I have never seen a negative side effect from it and it's cheap and pretty straight forward to execute

[LongrangeLauber]

And to chime in regarding the EBC green pads, I think I originally had the 6k series bc it had better performance compared to the 7k and goodness were they dusty as all get out. When they finally wore out in 40k miles I went with Wagner Thermoquiet pads and those were so much quieter, sacrificed just a bit of stopping power, but the dust was 90% less. Totally worth it IMO, plus they were easy to get ahold of at Advance Auto, didn't have to wait since I needed brakes like that day lol

[Jsdirt]

I had a terrible experience with those ThermoQuiets. I had to STAND on the pedal when I had the car trailer loaded. Was ridiculous. Immediately noticed the high effort braking the day I installed them. Ran them for 11k miles or so, and threw them in the trash - weren't even worn to 50% yet. I just couldn't take it anymore. Might have got a defective set or something (screwed up the compound? Who knows).

 

I had ThermoQuiets on our Grand Marquis, and that thing would launch the passenger into the dash with a quick stab of the pedal. AWESOME stopping power with no effort at all. The total opposite of what I got with the truck. Go figure!

 

Seems dust is a byproduct of excellent stopping power. No dust means more effort at the pedal. Good power / low effort mean cleaning your wheels every 200 miles. Can't win!

[StinkyCheese]

Paid the guy for the boat and brought it to a friend's property for the time being. Also picked up 2 buckets of roofing tar and other miscellaneous stuff to see if we can stop a leak in the room at my rental property. We were going to rotate the tires and change the external transmission filter but we ran out of energy after fixing the roof in the middle of the night. Plus my buddy has been up for 36 hours now. Maybe tomorrow we'll rotate the trucks after we go see our roofing job in the daylight.

 

[MikeNH]

I had a terrible experience with those ThermoQuiets. I had to STAND on the pedal when I had the car trailer loaded. Was ridiculous. Immediately noticed the high effort braking the day I installed them. Ran them for 11k miles or so, and threw them in the trash - weren't even worn to 50% yet. I just couldn't take it anymore. Might have got a defective set or something (screwed up the compound? Who knows).

 

I had ThermoQuiets on our Grand Marquis, and that thing would launch the passenger into the dash with a quick stab of the pedal. AWESOME stopping power with no effort at all. The total opposite of what I got with the truck. Go figure!

 

Seems dust is a byproduct of excellent stopping power. No dust means more effort at the pedal. Good power / low effort mean cleaning your wheels every 200 miles. Can't win!

 

 

I can't agree with that. Most new vehicles stop quite well and dust is pretty much a non-issue these days. Aftermarket pads are a whole different game though, they always seemed to make a mess but the last time I bought aftermarket pads was literally over a decade ago. Any brake job I've done for myself (last time I kept something long enough for pads was my 03 Silverado ) or family I always tell them to get OE pads. They cost more but they work best. But that's all for late model stuff. I'm sure Ford doesn't bother with making the compound for your Mercury be the latest and greatest.

[Brian Long]

Saturday: Made custom mounting rails for installing 2 Alpine PWE-S8 subs, 1 under each front seat.

Sunday: Installed a dual-amp wiring kit, 2 subs, and 2 tweeters.

 

Result: Awesome without even seeing the subs unless you go looking, zero loss of cargo space, and off-road worthy without worrying about bouncing a sub box around.

 

edit: can't eat speakers so changed them from tweaters to tweeters.

Edited August 30, 2016 by rpmdna

[wehowardjr]

What happened to the good ol' days? LOL

 

Yesterday morning I woke up to the passenger low beam out. I replaced both low beams rather than waiting for the driver side to go out. Found a video from 1A Auto on how to replace the bulbs.

 

I went from this:

 

To this just to replace the bulbs.

 

Once I was able to get the clips to pop out it was a piece of cake to do. Took me a little longer than it should have though. I read that there are 4 clips holding the grill on the 2011 Silverado. I discovered this truck has 6. I could not figure out why the grill just didn't pop off like in the video. I literally smacked my head when I figured it out. LOL Once the new bulbs were in it took less than 10 minutes to put back together. Wasn't too bad.

[Chevor]

Changed out front shocks on dually, 38k miles to Bilstein 4600s. OEM shocks when pushed down one came back at an inch the other none at all.