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Mad Mike
04-21-2011, 10:37 PM
Friend of mine asked me to change his brakes on his explore today because he has no tools. I stopped and grabbed some pads for it and after work headed over to his house. I started on the passenger side and it went good. Went to the driver side and about feel over when I saw this. :eek:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o288/cordiaturboowner/0421112004c.jpg

The rear pad was ground down so bad it fell out of the caliper and the caliper piston was rubbing on the disk.
But wait it gets better.....

I rotated the disk and found this. :eek:
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o288/cordiaturboowner/0421112004b.jpg

Needless to say it needs a new disk and we have to find the hex tool to remove the crappy auto locking hubs that ford used. His 4x4 doesn't work because of theses stupid hubs. But thats another project.
Theycall_Metue
04-22-2011, 07:05 AM
crappy picture but i finally saw what your trying to show us.
i've seen worse
Mad Mike
04-22-2011, 08:31 AM
sorry about the pic it was getting dark and all I had was my phone.
Turbo ex
05-02-2011, 02:09 AM
thats sucks
Frenchi934
05-02-2011, 10:12 AM
looks like theres also a rust hole in the upper left...
Mad Mike
05-02-2011, 11:48 AM
looks like theres also a rust hole in the upper left...

I'm not sure what that is but I believe its the plastic shield under the explore that has been dragged down the road under the truck.

Heres the disk and pad that came off.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o288/cordiaturboowner/0423111518a.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o288/cordiaturboowner/0423111518b.jpg
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o288/cordiaturboowner/0423111518c.jpg
I have no idea why my camera over exposed them.

I dropped the disk after we got it all back together and the disk just shattered. I can't believe the guy was driving around with his brakes so bad. :screwy:
03RCode
05-02-2011, 02:06 PM
That rotor looks like my Titan's passenger rear did after that brake locked up at 85mph pulling a 20' enclosed trailer on 85.
cactusEG
05-02-2011, 03:41 PM
Did he rag his car ?
Crazydelsol
05-02-2011, 07:21 PM
Good thing he didn't had an accident!!
Mad Mike
05-02-2011, 08:24 PM
Did he rag his car ?

Nope its his only DD and it drives 60miles a day 5 days a week. I guess he just ignored the scraping sound until the brake locked up on him when it spit what was left of the brake pad out.
ultm8mind
05-18-2011, 12:35 PM
all they need is to be turned, you're good
NJSC
05-18-2011, 06:55 PM
^haha
It's crazy to think that we're all driving on the same roads that some people like this are driving on.