Greased brakes

I didn't know anyone actually greased the backs of the pads. I wonder how long that grease lasts. I wonder if there is a "best stuff to use" in this scenario. Maybe some anti-seize? MDS lube? Assembly lube? Now I have one more thing to obsess over when it comes to care longevity and performance.

 

Whenever I bought rotors and pads at Autozone or NAPA for my kids cars, they recommended the hardware kit (new pins and rubber boots), some "Disc Brake Quiet" and some high temp grease. They were sold in small one time use packets.
The Disc Quiet was smeared across the back of the pads. You waited about 5-10 minutes for the blue to dry clear then install the pads. This gave a little buffer between the metal backing and the caliper piston and on the other side, the caliper casting and the brake pad. Manufacturers then started making their pads with a quiet patch already on the back of the pads. These were usually some type of shiny material.
The hardware pins were the surface the pads slid on, mainly the pad against the the caliper piston. Typically, the original pins were pitted and gummed up, much easier to just grease up the new ones and replace. There are various types of disc brakes but the point is to grease the areas where the pads would contact the caliper and slid or move.
That's what I remember and I'm sticking with it!

 

I wonder if replacing the pins with stainless steel version would help with that pitting. They don't need a lot of strength as the vast majority of the force is borne by the front inside surface of the caliper during braking, not the pins, but, I am guessing SOME force vector affects the pins during braking.

 

When you got 28 MPG which driving mode were you in and which Challenger do you have? 6 spd. manual? 8 spd. auto? 392 or 5.7?

 

I think it must have been the V6 That Could. 28 seems high for the V8's unless he threw truck cam in one and put a 1.82:1 rear end in it.

The Hemis would be FINE for the much-worshipped climate crap if they just turned them at 2800 RPM redline and sold aftermarket parts so you could really wring them out. You could torque down the highway at 60mph and 700-900 RPM all day long, getting 30mpg.