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Ahwahnee
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Location: Mt Lemmon, AZ
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 Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 5:41 pm Post subject: Re: The most underrated, forgotten about, neglected maintenance jobs |
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| Brake fluid replacement every 2 years |
How often do the rubber hoses need replacing. |
Very hard to say. I finally replaced my 35 year old brake hoses last year - when I cut the old ones apart to inspect they looked just fine. |
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epowell
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Joined: September 23, 2015
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Location: Czech (mostly) Vancouver (sometimes)
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| Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 12:45 am Post subject: Re: The most underrated, forgotten about, neglected maintenance jobs |
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| Ahwahnee wrote: |
| epowell wrote: |
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| Brake fluid replacement every 2 years |
How often do the rubber hoses need replacing. |
Very hard to say. I finally replaced my 35 year old brake hoses last year - when I cut the old ones apart to inspect they looked just fine. |
Rubber from the old days was great stuff. I wonder what they changed in rubber production that has resulted in terrible rubber quality these days?
I changed my original rubber hoses 3 years ago and the last time I was at the State Tech exam he complained that the fitting for these hoses were a bit rusty. --- I wonder if it might work to carefully apply some rust remover to these fittings and try to clean off the rust. Then put a little bit of clean oil on them to keep the rust away?
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Merian
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Joined: January 04, 2014
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Location: Orygun
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| Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 1:40 pm Post subject: Re: The most underrated, forgotten about, neglected maintenance jobs |
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| epowell wrote: |
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| Brake fluid replacement every 2 years |
How often do the rubber hoses need replacing. |
not entirely clear, but 10-15 years is a good estimate
rubber hoses can be checked by squeezing
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