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Old timer at the yard told me to stop killing the hoist brakes by riding them down
Been running a Link-Belt 218 for 3 years and went through two sets of brakes before this guy walked up and said 'you're cooking em by not letting the load settle.' Switched to letting the load find its natural spot before braking and the current set has 8 months on em with no issues. Any of you guys run into a bad habit like that that a senior guy caught?
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matthewmartin18d ago
Three years and two sets of brakes doesn't sound that crazy to me. Those parts wear out anyway. Old timers always act like you're destroying the machine but half the time it's just normal maintenance.
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michael_jenkins3918d ago
Three years and two sets of brakes" - man that's pretty normal to me honestly. I've had cars where the rear pads were basically dust by 25k miles just from stop and go traffic. Some people act like you're abusing the car but it's just how things wear down depending on where you live and drive. Everyone's got their own idea of what "normal maintenance" is but brake pads are cheap compared to rotors or calipers so better safe than sorry. Did the sets you got include fresh rotors or just pads?
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jasonf1718d ago
Older pads and rotors used to bed in different, that's where the old timers get stuck. Newer pads are softer to be quieter and stop better, so they wear faster by design. That's just how it works now. Two sets in three years is a lot if you're mostly highway miles, but if you're in city traffic or hills, that's totally normal. One thing though, if you're burning through pads that fast, check your caliper slide pins. Stick pins will eat pads way quicker than driving habits alone.
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