Amen to checking fluid.
I do a "topside bleed" on all of my vehicles each yr, then a full bleed every 2 or 3 yrs. What I call a topside bleed is nothing more than sucking the fluid out of the M/C reservoir and replacing it with new fresh DOT 3 or DOT 4. I use a $1 turkey baster from the house. My wife gets a new baster every Christmas.
Cheapest preventative brake maintenance there is. Remember, brake fluid is hydroscopic (absorbs water). So if you don't get that old waterbound fluid up and out ever now and then, you get corrosion and pitting.
Watch out!, that fluid, if dripped on paint will eat the paint.
Check your daily drivers and that of your spouse. I assure you if you have not done this, the fluid will be the color of coffee! That is really corrosive!!! It costs you what? a little more than a cup of coffee per truck/car to prevent this corrosion. And you can do this task faster than you can drink your cup of coffee.
-Rick M.
Last edited by Rick Metcalfe; 11/29/2009 7:36 AM.
