Brakes:
Flush your brake system periodically. Buy fluid in metal cans. If you want to pressure bleed, the best way is to buy one with a diaphram separating the fluid from the pressurized (and humid) air. I have a smaller version of something like this that KD Tools used to sell. https://www.autobodytoolmart.com/pr...s-pressure-brake-bleeder-g300/auto-body-tools
I'm betting you haven't heard this one.
Push the brake pedal *all* the way to the floor when you are at a stop every now and then. It'll keep crud from forming on the rod just beyond the typical brake travel range, which will kill the seal if that crud gets hardened onto the rod with age/heat. The seal gets killed when people bleed their brakes via the pedal and the pedal keeps going to the floor a bunch of times, forcing that rough spot through the seal over and over.
Flush your brake system periodically. Buy fluid in metal cans. If you want to pressure bleed, the best way is to buy one with a diaphram separating the fluid from the pressurized (and humid) air. I have a smaller version of something like this that KD Tools used to sell. https://www.autobodytoolmart.com/pr...s-pressure-brake-bleeder-g300/auto-body-tools
I'm betting you haven't heard this one.
Push the brake pedal *all* the way to the floor when you are at a stop every now and then. It'll keep crud from forming on the rod just beyond the typical brake travel range, which will kill the seal if that crud gets hardened onto the rod with age/heat. The seal gets killed when people bleed their brakes via the pedal and the pedal keeps going to the floor a bunch of times, forcing that rough spot through the seal over and over.
