Brakes on the 1500 yesterday. Brakes that I'd originally ordered December 20th and didn't finish arriving until Tuesday. Fvck!n Amazon.
Anyway these Napa semi-metallic pads that I slapped on in my friend's driveway in ND last year while helping him move had already failed me at 15,000 miles. I was not impressed.
Last set of NAPA pads I bought were comically bad. They were the mid grade ceramic ones. I put them on my mom's Outback and they were the dustiest, noisiest pads I've ever seen. I think they lasted a year. The wheels were always completely covered in brake dust.
Rotors are all made in China. I go with whatever the cheapest coated ones are on RockAuto. I think the grandpa Buick has Raybestos Element3 pads on the rear. They've been fine, although it doesn't tow or see any real heavy duty use.
When working on the brakes on the 12 bolt in one of the c10s I bought all new stuff from Napa- drums, shoes, calipers, hoses, you name it. If it moved, flexed, or stopped it was getting changed.
Whelp, I spent about 8 hours on the rears, it just wouldn't go back together. Drums couldn't be made to fit back on. I kept swapping different stuff out, figuring first I had sonething adjusted wrong, or whatever. Even went and swapped out for a second set of shoes and drums.
Turned out, the Napa shoes were defective and what didn't fit. Both sets. I'd finally thought to compare them to the old ones. Got some cheapo shoes at oriellys and boom, everything fit together quick and easy.
I've still never bothered to change the booster and master, or the.fronts, because I'm so burned out with it.
