I know 10.9 is stronger, and was surprised to see 9.8 in there, but if it's factory I figure it must be up to snuff and they all went back in. I did intentionally install them so that the 10.9 was in every other hole. Boy was that fun drawing them in with a torque wrench! I finally went back out to the truck yesterday to put the brakes back on. Cleaned all the rust, grease, and funk out of the knuckle.
No after pic, but they cleaned up nicely and the hubs slid right in. Much better than how they came out. The rotors were thick enough I could have turned them, but I wrecked them by beating the snot out of them by removing the rotor/hub as a whole. Once they were back in with freshly painted heat shields I have no picture of (that I scrubbed every last spec of rust/scale off of last weekend), I plugged the wheel speed sensors back in and turned the key on. No more ABS light! I bought this truck back in 2016 and it's had a junk wheel speed sensor this entire time. Given the scope of disassembly required to change just that I let it ride. Feels good to check that off even though I hate this ancient 3 channel setup. Next I went to push the calipers back in. For as clean as I'd gotten everything else I wasn't thrilled at how brown they were. So much so they weren't gonna clean up with a quick swipe of a wire wheel. I thought about replacing them, then decided to keep some money in my pocket. Then the pistons wouldn't go back in on either side. I had a flashback to 2018 when I last did pads on this. I was down to the squealers and I had to pick up the Z06 from paint the next day. I was junking a wrecked dually like mine and it had like new crap-tastic pads so I slapped those on. I remember the pistons were really difficult to push in back then, well they were impossible yesterday. Not only that, they popped rusty brake fluid out the bleeder hole I always crack open when I do this as the nastiest of fluid always seems to live inside the caliper. Anyway, O'Reilly's had some reman calipers on the shelf so $100 later I was here.
Looking much better than when I took it apart. I really couldn't beat the convenience of the reman calipers. New pistons, new seals, new banjo bolts/copper washers, fresh cleaned sliders greased, and they were painted to boot. Not my favorite color, but it'll keep the rust at bay as this doesn't really see winters in my possession. I have a pedal and no leaks, but I need to get it out from under the camper and go for a test rip to see how it does. I think I'll bring it home and DD it for a bit so I can deal with a few other things, weather is looking nice this coming week. The brake fluid is NASTY. I want to say I did a flush back in 2020? But the fluid color implies otherwise.
