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Re: Question about Viggen brakes
Posted by Dean (more from Dean) on Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:08:41
In Reply to: Question about Viggen brakes, Ritts, Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:25:53
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You can run the brake pads and rotors forever, or until they wear out, whichever comes first.
Perhaps you are thinking of brake fluid scheduled bleeds. The service schedule is probably fine. Some folks do it every year, but do it them selves. The more humid the climate, the greater the need.
Between brake bleeds, you can remove the fluid from the reservior and add clean dry fluid. As this is where moisture gets into the system, this can be very effective and easy maintenance. A syringe (sp) is handy. You can geet nice big ones from TSC or other places that sell stuff for livestock. I guess no one is expecting that junkies would use 2 ounce syringes! You can put some 1/4" OD, vinyl hose onto it. You may have to get creative to drain the secondary tank. This can be a 5 minute job, very inexpensive too.
If you want to go one step further, put the vehicle on stands, remove all four wheels, and push the slave pistons in, while removing the fluid as above. Then add new fluid, and pump the brakes to refill the pistons and get the brakes ready to to be used again.
You can couple the above with bleeding as well. No point in bleeding the lines and leaving the pistons full of old fluid is there? So they should be pushed in before bleeding.
I have heard that when pumping the brakes to move the fluid, that you should not put the petal as far down as it can go. Something about damage to the master cylinder seals. Don't exactly remember what goes wrong, but could speculate.
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