Front disc brakes t680

Disc brakes are far superior to drum in every way. Same as a car.

Pad replacement is cheap. Get out your wallet if you need a rotor or caliper change. Best to keep an eye on pads and change them often before the get too thin.

 

You keep a eye on those pads. Measure them regular.

Disk is far superior to drum. Ive lived with drum so long downgrade on any mountain that is what I know. I would expect the same or better performance from disk, particular if it has additional beef, cooling vents and so on and a way to transfer the heat from the pads.

You are going to feel like a God in disk all around truck. You think stop here, it's stopped. But... pads are cheap always.

Rotors and such are NOT. Put away 5% until you have enough on hand to replace all 6 disks at any time if need be. Otherwise measure the pads regular and replace them at 40%

 

How long does rotors cost.

Well using my old Ford 70 model as a example my disks failed in the front, crumbled after they got too thin. I had nothing but bits of spoke metal. Pads were long gone.

Pads were 35 dollars pair and roters 350 complete.

The axle pair I put on approached a thousand dollars from a very particular mechanic who understood my car very much. He knew what my driving is like (Usually top end)

Pads are cheap. Measure them all the time.

NEVER FORCE the steering wheel anywhere standing on your brakes without ABS going and buzzing. You will either warp the tire sidewalls or warp your rotors. Never be in a position to have to stop short like that. Rotors hate that.

USUALLY rotors can be turned once ever. But that's strictly a postponement of eventual destruction and death. Thats when you go buy new rotors. Hopefully you have gone through many pads before that.

My last tractor a 2000 century in 210,000 miles possessed original drum, pads and clutch. All of them would be worked on to give to another driver when we left that company and truck after almost a year in team driving the hell out of it.

Imagine how long discs can last.