Yay 8 hours later my truck stops!
Left rear caliper was seized, that was for some reason messing up the whole system. I decided I would replace all the rotors and pads while I was at it to towing quality instead of the cheap junk the used car dealer installed. Front pads were half gone and rears 3/4 gone anyways.
Switching the new caliper and rotor on the left rear was quick and easy enough, no surprises. Right rear was going well but man I could not get the pads in, the clips and where they sit was so rusted. Back to the store today to get new clips, WOW took 5 mins instead of an hour to get the pads in. Go for a drive, noisy as all heck. Ugh drum parking brake on the rear rubbing, that went away but I took everything off again at first to figure it out.
Then the fronts, oh boy. Hey why not use Brembo brakes in the front, because those are awesome right? Wrong
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If you aren't familiar with Brembo style, you bang two pins out and pull the pads off. Well at least I know my fronts are 4 piston calipers that pretty bad ass.
Anyways, the top pin banged out after much hammering. The bottom pin (on both sides) was a nightmare, it just would not come out. I ended up buying new pins. I cut the pins in half, got half out, then the other half wouldn't come out. I had to drill them out!!
One of them I had to drill fully, the other one I drilled it about halfway then jammed a punch in there and with the sledge it finally popped out. What a mess.
They shouldn't get stuck again now the hole is larger.
Anyways, night and day difference. Cost me about $650 in parts