My cousin has drums on his 05 and has no problems with them and I have rotors on my 02 and have no problems. They wear at 1/2 the rate of the fronts as they should but I have to do the fronts at least once a year for my 35's on my tiny rotors.

Regarding the parking brake not working, here's a write up I did a while back

https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...d.php?t=385483