Brake life
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From: On the Edge of the Desert
Brake life
How many miles do you guys get out of your brakes? I'm talking the regular old manual drums all around.
How much life are you getting between brake jobs?
How much life are you getting between brake jobs?
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From: Waterloo, Iowa
Good question. The manual says to inspect brake linings and adjust brakes each 24,000 miles. Sounds a little optimistic to me. The master cylinder is trashed on mine, starting to drip on the floor mat, have a replacement on hand, along with new hoses. The wheel cylinders and shoes were replaced about 10,000 miles ago or so.
Have always hated messing with bleeding brakes. Griots had this spiffy one man brake bleeder got today in the mail. It runs off air compressor, sort of like a hose end sprayer. Good pressure when bleeding means no spongy pedal.
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Have always hated messing with bleeding brakes. Griots had this spiffy one man brake bleeder got today in the mail. It runs off air compressor, sort of like a hose end sprayer. Good pressure when bleeding means no spongy pedal.
Sent with smoke signals using IB AutoGroup
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From: **** hole San Jose ca.
One bleeder, just let it free flow. Open one at a time one pump then let it run for a little while & do the next one ez. have not had help in 40 yrs bleeding brakes never a problem..
orich
orich
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From: Mayfield, KY
Don't drive it enough to wear out brakes.......or at least I didn't before I put on power disc up front. I had put new liners and wheel cylinders on 2002 or so. When I went to power I blew one on back so I changed them both and checked the liners....looked very good.
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From: Langley, BC
I wish I could answer this properly because I've only got no more than 5,000 miles on my brakes, but they are barely broken in!
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Back in the day you could figure about 20K to 25K on drum brakes. Depending how a person drives. But much has changed since then.
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