On Sat, 17 May 2008 09:49:50 -0700, Bruce L. Bergman wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 23:57:15 -0500, "Ray O"
> <rokigawaATtristarassociatesDOTcom> wrote:
>
>
>>"jim beam" <spamvortex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> hachiroku ???? wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 15 May 2008 20:08:51 -0700, jim beam wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 1. how often do you change your engine coolant?
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. how often do you change your brake fluid?
>>>>
>>>> LOL! I'm pobably baiting myself here, but I'll bite:
>>>>
>>>> I change the coolant when it needs it. When it stops looking 'green'
>>>> enough. One car I ran 120,000 miles before changing it, and didn't
>>>> change it again after that. I traded it at 244,000 and saw it around
>>>> 4 more years after that.
>>>>
>>>> The car that replaced it had a coolant change at 150,000 miles, That
>>>> one currently has 259,000 and is sitting in my back yard.
>>>>
>>>> Brake fluid gets changed the moment I notice a difference in pedal
>>>> pressure. If I start to lose 'modulation' I check the fluid and
>>>> chenge it. This usually happens around 150,000 or so when the fluid
>>>> is dark brown, but not black. The place I used to have do my brakes
>>>> would bleed or flush accordingly, and brakes last me ~60,000 miles.
>>>
>>> <snip irrelevance>
>>>
>>> so not only do you disregard the owners manual with too frequent oil
>>> changes, you disregard it with too infrequent coolant or brake fluid
>>> changes. the latter being a material factor in vehicle safety.
>>>
>>>
>>Toyota does not have a recommended brake fluid change.
>
> Yes, but they should. Brake fluid is hygroscopic and will absorb
> moisture out of the air over time, and you still want to deep bleed the
> brakes with fresh fluid to effectively change it occasionally.
>
> Though I would never stretch it to 150K, do it every time the
> calipers are rebuilt or other major brake work is done to the car, in
> the 30K to 60K range.
>
> --<< Bruce >>--
But, according to our friend jim beam, I should be going by the manual.
The manual does not give a recommendation for changing brake fluid, it
merely says "Top up all fluids." So, that's what I did with my
'hachiroku'.
Around 225,000 miles I noticed the brake pedal was hard as hell to
depress, and flushed the entire system. Brought back that nice, like new
feeling to the brakes. Lesson learned.
Also, Toyota did not have a recommendation for changing manual
transmission gear oil or differential gear oil.
My wife took the GT-S to work one day, and I could hear her in the
driveway. She was used to driving her automatic Honda and forgot the
clutch. HEY! GRIND ME A POUND!
Next service, I called the SM I bought the car from and said, Oh, yeah,
change the gear oil in the tranny. His response? "The gear oil in the
manual transmission is good for the life of the car and only needs to be
checked occasionally." I explained to him what happened and I could hear
the pencil on the Service Order as he said, "Change...trans...gear...oil."
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