deputydawg

Thanks everybody! great feedback! I'am 3rd gen dodge and 3 out of 4 (1 is 15 and wants a Viper and a 69 Charger) are the 4th incl one with a 03 CTD. I have driven his 03 CTD auto for some distance and am extremely inpressed with the braking. As I said the wife and I want to travel some and we are researching the tow vehicle and fiver. I will be watching with great intrest the Pac Brake vs Auto tx closely as that looks like a very useful option. Between this fourm, the TDR site and all the links I feel like a kid outside a candy store window just before it opens!!!!!!! hope to visit often and build up my 'candy' wish list

Work truck White 98 CTD auto DZ bds all stock 295k Wife's 01 Dakota 119k 4.7 hauls butt!!

torquefan

Regarding the rear disc/drum issue, I would like to point out that in the auto repair trade, we are seeing many rear disc failures that we don't have to worry about with rear drums. It seems that in the rear, calipers are subjected to much more salt, road spray, mud, gravel, and crap than in the front. I have seen many trucks where a caliper slide has seized up and worn one rear pad down to metal in only a few thousand miles, while all the other pads are still like new. With drum brakes, you just set them up every oil change, and forget about them. The only stopping problem the 2nd gen. Dodge drum brakes have is that Chrysler engineers biased the braking too heavily on the front. It's not the brakes' fault.
Just my 2 cents.
Dave