Brakes

[Cincinnati Guy]

My brakes stop me real good now since I got all the bugs worked out of them. I can stop with regular applied brake pedel and all is fine, but if I slam on my brakes I get a real bad smell of burnt brakes, is this normal for new brakes, possibly just wearing in or do I have a stuck caliper?

 

[timothyr1014]

if the pads have not been bedded in you can get a burnt smell, if they have a fe miles on them it could be that the compound is too soft and they are overheating....in short, no its not normal...I can stand on my brakes at 60 mph 2 or 3 times in succession and not get a burning smell

 

[phazertwo]

if the pads have not been bedded in you can get a burnt smell, if they have a fe miles on them it could be that the compound is too soft and they are overheating....in short, no its not normal...I can stand on my brakes at 60 mph 2 or 3 times in succession and not get a burning smell

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PZ

 

[GRU]

i musta been slipping. what did you do to fix the mushy pedal??

 

[Brianedwardss]

i musta been slipping. what did you do to fix the mushy pedal??

Me too! All three of my ford IDI's have always had mushy pedals, rabs spring mods only helped one of 'em.

 

[red7.3]

Mine was mushy I just bled the brakes like crazy, and also adjusted the rear brakes manually. The adjusters on these trucks don't like to auto adjust so you have to adjust them manually. A lot of your pedal feel comes from the drum brakes.

 

[Cincinnati Guy]

I found out sometimes the front caliper was sticking so I replaced both calipers and she will stop on a dime now!