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Originally Posted by hatzie
If I were doing this for the wife, girlfriend, daughter I would check the parking brake to make sure it's functional. The men in the family can do their own brakes.
If you're trying to be frugal maybe get the rotors cut and give em a once over in the blast cabinet to make sure the friction surfaces are parallel, don't have the outer and inner rust rings on the friction surface, and the hat doesn't have a bunch of rust. It costs around $20 each here.
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Back in the mid-1970s I worked at a service station and did brakes all the time. Of course we had lifts so you could stand up to your work
I could check the parking brake easy enough on the hill that our house is built on
Taking anything into a machine shop or anywhere else requires at least 120 mile round trip, assuming you can get it done and back the same day.
Maybe I should have let Chevy do the whole thing but I was freaking out over the cost. I've bought pretty good used trucks in the past for less than what it was going to total counting the brakes!
a/t flush/refill
coolant flush/refill
a/t coolant lines replace
f/r differential drain refill
Oh, and our Jeep is losing brake fluid so I need to work on it too sometime soon
Probably the r/r wheel cylinder.