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Kel
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3/21/2005
02:38:13
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 Subject: My *@#$% BrAkEs
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I have a 98 durango and my brakes suck. In the past 8 months I have changed my brakes 3 times and spent over $1000. Is there any way that I can fit bigger brakes on my durango. And I dont want to spend $3000. I have looked around the internet the only bigger brakes I could find were for around that much. Do the newer durangos and dakotas 02-03 have bigger brakes then mine and if so can I put them on my truck.Any way thanks for the help.
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DSW
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3/21/2005
03:47:49
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Have the back brakes been adjusted along with the new front brakes?
My 00 CC Dak had cronic brake problems and I found that everytime the fronts went bad the rear drum brakes were out of adjustment, the front brakes were doing all of the braking. I put on 2-3 sets of el'cheapo AutoZone rotors and pads which led to warped rotors in 5-10K miles, towing in the mix. I finally bit the bullet and replaced the front rotors with Raybestos SuperStop drilled and slotted rotors with a set of thier SuperStop pads, $200 for parts from rockauto.com. Never a problem again with warped rotors even when I got them hot towing.
A lot of guys have put on drilled, slotted or drilled and slotted rotors with good results. The PowerSlot rotor - Hawk pad combination has some good reviews here.
03 and 04 Dak's have larger front brakes, but you have to change a lot of things, rotors, calipers, spindles $$$. Junk yard would be the best bet. My 03 QC has 4 wheel disc's and at 37K the brakes are still A' OK. Larger front disc brakes combined with disc rear brakes that stay in adjustment have kept the 03 from having brake problems.
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home boy
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3/21/2005
09:26:10
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youre not rollin on 22+ inch rims are you?
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matt
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3/21/2005
20:51:58
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Front disc, rear drum I suppose... what are the conditions of failure?!?! How many miles? are you towing loads? are the pads just wearing out? Are you doing a lot of slow long drawn out stops, or many sudden stops? most new brake jobs require a 500 mile break-in period before any emergency or heavy braking, or else you risk damaging the pad material... The thing I have an issue with (with the rear being out of adjustment) is that you would have a soft pedal, and also, they are self adjusting, every time you backup they adjust slightly... usually they get out of adjustment at a rear brake service, yet all this is nil if its rear disc... you can the check the adjustment by applying the E brake, and attempting to reverse your 'Rango.. I suspect that going to a cross drilled or even a slotted rotor would make a definite diference is stopping abilty, and using a ceramic pad like EBC or Hawk would also increase rotor and pad life, but they (the rotors) are a bit more difficult to service... not many places are comfortable turning a non-flat rotor.
If You really want bigger brakes, you could go to a Viper conversion from socaldakotas.com, but your talking some MAJOR money, and time invested to convert over.
check out IRotors.com, they sell a really decent and not too expensive cross drilled and slotted rotor for the front of Dakotas, I'm not sure, but they may carry for the durango too.
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BS flows
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3/23/2005
09:24:09
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Matt, Do you have a link to any info on brakes taking 500 miles to break-in.?
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DSW
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3/23/2005
11:46:01
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Run a search here and on the net for "seasoning brakes". I did this with my drilled and slotted rotors and it only took 30-40 minutes. You have to be out in the middle of no where so you can slow down from 40-0, 50-0, 60-0, etc.
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