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April 2017 locations & Gossip
- Thread starter ntimevan
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Holy crap...
You are going to wear that picture out! Lol
Nobody's going to change you, OVM. I had a million mile van too, it gets to be more superstition than sense. My first trans fluid flush was about 500k miles, I did it once or twice more, never dropped the pan.
My brake fluid was black at 180k in my employee driven Sprinter, every vehicle is different. I have a feeling you would notice the difference if you changed it. But no need to mess with what works lol.
That would be the reason to change it if clear, after significant miles...the pedal just feels better. I've never worried about water in the fluid, but thermal breakdown. Brakes get HOT...touch a rotor after a long downhill if you doubt me. There is nowhere for the heat to go, no radiator on brake fluid. If thermal breakdown didn't matter, everybody would run toilet paper oil filters and never change their oil either.
But you can retire this year happy you didn't change it
I know how hot our cheap ass rotors get after coming down the steep grade with 2500 pounds on there smoking ! With only two or three at most more loads to go I'm more so certainly not worried about it !Nobody's going to change you, OVM. I had a million mile van too, it gets to be more superstition than sense. My first trans fluid flush was about 500k miles, I did it once or twice more, never dropped the pan.
My brake fluid was black at 180k in my employee driven Sprinter, every vehicle is different. I have a feeling you would notice the difference if you changed it. But no need to mess with what works lol.
That would be the reason to change it if clear, after significant miles...the pedal just feels better. I've never worried about water in the fluid, but thermal breakdown. Brakes get HOT...touch a rotor after a long downhill if you doubt me. There is nowhere for the heat to go, no radiator on brake fluid. If thermal breakdown didn't matter, everybody would run toilet paper oil filters and never change their oil either.
But you can retire this year happy you didn't change it
I just remembered I lied
I had a jammed up brake piston on one caliper passenger-side put one new caliper on and they flush the brake system
I had a jammed up brake piston on one caliper passenger-side put one new caliper on and they flush the brake system
Should have kept that one to yourself lol there goes your credibility
That's the way most people get theirs "changed"
I can live with it...lolShould have kept that one to yourself lol there goes your credibility
That's the way most people get theirs "changed"
And the moisture in the fluid caused the corrosion on the piston that stuck it and the wheels on the $printer go round and round... 
Actually it was due for a brake jobAnd the moisture in the fluid caused the corrosion on the piston that stuck it and the wheels on the $printer go round and round...
I hit a pothole in Nogales and the brake pad somehow jump up enough on 1 side and 1 of the pistons jammed under it...freak thing. Cool eh?
I don't top it off anymore, ever since I accidentally put blinker fluid in it
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jujubeans
OVM Project Manager
Good morning. I can't move. Ow
So that's what use it or lose it means
So that's what use it or lose it means
jujubeans
OVM Project Manager
Sounds like an Aleve moment!
So gotta say the new j on the south side of Indy is significantly less burnt down and 100% nicer lol they seem to be trying to keep inside and out a heck of a lot cleaner !
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