I say (somewhat loosely) that in the rust belt its darn near impossible to to a pad slap. Basically if you do the pad slap at 3 years, by that time you probably have one of more pads not pressing on the rotor properly because the pad's ears are rusted, caliper pin is rusted or caliper piston is rusted due to corrosion getting past the seal. So the rotor is mostly likely screwed up and cannot be reused.
One of the proclaimed benefits of a pad slap is that you don't remove the caliper bracket, just pull the caliper, slap in the pads, compress the piston and replace the caliper.
However if you don't do the proper cleaning & lube of the caliper pins, caliper bracket where the SS clips go then you are wasting your time on new pads.
In addition if you don't remove the caliper bracket, then the rotor cannot be removed. The rotor needs to come off, lube the hub and replace the rotor (even if reusing the rotor). Or just that much harder when you do need to replace the rotor.
One of the proclaimed benefits of a pad slap is that you don't remove the caliper bracket, just pull the caliper, slap in the pads, compress the piston and replace the caliper.
However if you don't do the proper cleaning & lube of the caliper pins, caliper bracket where the SS clips go then you are wasting your time on new pads.
In addition if you don't remove the caliper bracket, then the rotor cannot be removed. The rotor needs to come off, lube the hub and replace the rotor (even if reusing the rotor). Or just that much harder when you do need to replace the rotor.
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