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Best brake pads for a work truck? Hawk LTS? #1816362
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I know this isn't the typical question you'd see in here, but I figure you guys know brake pads better than I do. laugh2

I have a 72 W200 (3/4 ton) pickup, weighs 5600# with 32" tires. I average about 1000 miles/year on it. Converted it to disk brakes all around using chevy 3/4 ton knuckles up front (11.5" rotors IIRC), and caddy eldorado (ebrake) calipers in the rear.

Currently running the autozone lifetime warranty pads realcrazy

They work, but they don't really have any bite. Slowing down the horse trailer can get... interesting...

I found some Hawk LTS pads I think should work better than the current ones. I'm not concerned about dust, and would like them to be mostly quiet. They just need to stop well when cold, and not fade to nothing at the bottom of any long hills.

Or, is there a better pad I should look at? I just want to avoid playing brake pad roulette laugh2


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Re: Best brake pads for a work truck? Hawk LTS? [Re: hooziewhatsit] #1816542
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Looking at it again, I actually need HB131 pads, which don't come in LTS material.

They do come in High Performance Street though, which may be better than the race options (DTC-70, 60, 30, MT-4, Black)?

This would be for just the front brakes.


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Re: Best brake pads for a work truck? Hawk LTS? [Re: hooziewhatsit] #1816638
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EBC Red is supposed to be good. EBC yellow is probably better hot but may be a bit soft cold. If you are running Autozone "gold" pads, they are not bad IMO. Any opportunity to improve the trailer brakes?

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I'm pretty sure the autozone pads are the cheap $22 not-gold ones.

Even without the trailer, brake performance just seems.. not near as good as it could be.

So looking at EBCs stuff, they recommend Greenstuff 7000 for 4x4s. Yellowstuff is their second recommendation.

Hawk HPS are $70/set.
EBC GS 7k are $105/set.

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Re: Best brake pads for a work truck? Hawk LTS? [Re: hooziewhatsit] #1816936
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Sounds like you are running the medium grade AZ metallic... its OK but not as much "bite" as the gold IMO.

Re: Best brake pads for a work truck? Hawk LTS? [Re: hooziewhatsit] #1817034
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I recently used Centric HD/Fleet metallic on my 06 Grand Caravan.
I am very pleased , the best brakes I've used on it. Greatly improved power/feel . I've had this van since new and have 55k on it.I have put 4 sets of brake pads and 2 sets rotors on this thing.I do live in a mountainous region and Caravans have smallish brakes too.

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You might also check out Performance Friction mettalic (O'Rieley's). If they have a pad for your application it would probably be a little soft cold like the EBC yellow but good hot.

With higher weight and moderate rotor size it probably does not take long to build heat so the higher temp materials like EBC yellow and PF carbon mettalic may do well.

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Originally Posted By ahy
You might also check out Performance Friction mettalic (O'Rieley's). If they have a pad for your application it would probably be a little soft cold like the EBC yellow but good hot.

With higher weight and moderate rotor size it probably does not take long to build heat so the higher temp materials like EBC yellow and PF carbon mettalic may do well.


Interesting. PF CM appear to be available, for ~$130ish.

Any idea how long it would take for the pads to warm up? Are we talking one stop from 55mph would do it? Or would it take more than that? 98% of the time, the truck is mostly empty (garbage runs, etc). I'm thinking the EBC Greenstuff 7k might be the best all-around pad work


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Re: Best brake pads for a work truck? Hawk LTS? [Re: hooziewhatsit] #1818858
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I ran performance friction carbon mettalics on my challenger with 13" rotors. On first hit cold they were a little soft... part way through the first stop they picked up and were pretty good so one stop from 55 would be more than than enough. I drove it cross country in locally freeing weather and always felt confident. With a heavier vehicle and smaller rotors I think they would warm up and bite pretty fast... plus they held up on a pretty heavy track day that cooked my back drums completely.

Personally I have experienced heavy brake fade at the bottom of a descent and survived but did not care for it... I'd trade more performance at the bottom of the hill for some brief softness at the top.

Re: Best brake pads for a work truck? Hawk LTS? [Re: hooziewhatsit] #1819026
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Upon further review, Oreilly's was showing me the wrong pads. The right ones are available for $60 or $80 (depending on the rear drum width. Since I swapped, I'm really not sure what the difference is work).

We have some property that sits 3/4 of a mile up a hill that gains ~250' feet in elevation. Coming down I always put it in 1st, and even then it can get interesting by the bottom.

The PF CMs are cheap enough to give them a shot.

Thanks for the input!


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Re: Best brake pads for a work truck? Hawk LTS? [Re: hooziewhatsit] #1819578
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Well, found the performance friction carbon metallics on amazon for $44.

They'll be here in two days. I'll try to update next week after I get them installed.


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