Here all the sudden within the last couple of days my truck is going haywire. The Bright Headlight Indicator light now stays lit whenever the headlights are on, it is brighter when the bright lites are on and gets dimmer with them off. The 4WD Indicator light has started coming on randomly going down the road, sometimes it even blinks for miles like a turn signal. Front brakes started grinding this morning, pulled the tires to check the pads and found that the inside pad on both sides is pretty much gone, while both out pads are still plenty thick. I am assuming my brake lines are worn out causing this. Looking for sugestions on all of these. I'm hoping if it comes in threes maybe I'm done for a while.

 

Drop the keys.....step away from the vehicle.... turn around and run for your life.

It's simple. Your truck is posessed by Africanized fireflies!!


The uneven brake pad wear is due to calipers hanging up. Time to lube the pins and slides while you replace the pads.

 

I'm blamin it on some of these Cajun voodoo Doctors, that hang out here.

 

My 2000 did that a while back and when I replaced the brakes and rotors the lights went away. I think it was screwing with the ABS sensors. I also had to replace the speed sensor in the rear axel and that would also cause the ABS light, etc. to come on.
Q

 

The caliper pins are probably hanging up, but replacing the pins and bushings alone won't help. Remove the rubber bushings, then hone out all the rust in their bores, right down to shiny metal, before installing the new caliper bushings. The rust in there expands about ten times more than metal when it gets hot. I think this causes more braking problems in our trucks than anything else.

 

Would that just affect one pad and not both of them?

 

He hit the nail right on the head. I've got almost 170000 miles on my original brakes all the way around. I take the calipers off every summer and clean and lightly lube the pins. The pads right now are worn even and still over half. I also take a Dremel tool with a wire wheel to the sliding surfaces on the caliper and the mount to clean them to bare metal. Then I take just an ever so light smear of heavy duty wheel bearing grease and smear on all surfaces. Don't pile it up on there of it will just colect dirt and lock up even tighter. Just a little smear enough to coat the surfaces. Of course I have the Jacobs too.

 

Yes it does, because the caliper is not free to float back and forth on the pins.

 

Okay, haven't done anything yet to correct any of this and now my 4WD indicator light works perfect. Can anybody tell me if this switch works off vaccum or electrical hook-up under the truck. Been driving through the weeds alot here lately pullin the manure spreader with the truck and thinkin I may have hooked it on something.

 

i think the 4x4 is vacuume opperated

 

Must have been hanging around them Ferds and Chebys. Gave you truck the jumpin grud.

Dave

 

Them Furds and Chebbys need to be quarantined, give em there own country so they will stop draggin my truck down to there level. It was a good truck before it started hangin around with the wrong crowd.