Here's a quick story that may teach others to listen to their significant others with truck advice. About 3 months ago I replaced my pads and rotors (with the help of my gf's father). Recently, I developed a grinding noise on hard braking, it sounded like my pads were completely worn. I pulled 3 wheels and everything looked perfect. I told my gf what I had done and of course she rationally replied, "why didn't you pull the last wheel?" Of course I should have but I assumed it would have revealed the same and I got lazy. Well, recently I came to my senses and decided to pull the remaining wheel. The backing plate had loosened from the outside pad and was grinding on the rotor. After a quick pad change all is well, it even stopped a clunking sound I had when I would accelerate from a stop. I guess that's what I get for getting involved with a mechanic's daughter.

 

Can she cook?

 

As long as you arent playing with his "tool(s)"

But seriously tho, never hurts to do a check up on your own work after a while a month or so.
-Patrick

 

Not sure that mechanics daughter had anything to do with it.

You had 4 possibilities for a root cause, you checked 3 of them, I'd say it was process of elimination. She played the odds, that if one of 4 was bad, 3 were good, then odds are it is the last one.

 

You should have let her test drive the truck.She may have been able to tell what side the grinding noise was coming from?Then you would've only had to remove 2 wheels.

 

Point taken, I should have been able to localize it, but that's part of the learning curve.

 

Yeah, if she can cook.....hang on to this one.