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11-23-2015, 11:58 AM
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How often do you change your fluids?
Just trying to get an idea of how often people change fluids such as brake fluid, transmission fluid, differential fluid, clutch fluid?
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11-23-2015, 12:06 PM
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KaBoom1701
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Follow the manual is it's your DD or weekend car.
If you track it then oil after every track day and bleed your brakes. dif, tranny fluid every 20 hrs of track time.
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11-23-2015, 12:12 PM
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Drives: 2013 Cammed/LSA Conversion 1LE Join Date: Mar 2013
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11-23-2015, 02:43 PM
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As often as the wife will let me!
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11-23-2015, 06:22 PM
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old school chevy rodder
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Unless you have installed a separate clutch reservoir you have the brake and clutch shared reservoir and its good to watch and clean that out more often as the clutch fluid does get more discoloration/contamination and I change it every couple thousand miles. The divide between spirited daily driving and tracking it are large and so is the difference in how often to change fluids.
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11-24-2015, 04:10 PM
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 Drives: 2012 2LS Camaro - RIP 10/3/2021 Join Date: Dec 2011
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My general rule - change brake/clutch fluid every 2 years or sooner if its dirty before.
Doesn't matter if its a weekend car, daily, whatever. Oil - I'm still not all in to the 7K plus change, I do it around 4 or 5 K I have an auto trans, its 4 years old - its getting changed this year. However the General has sealed the system so much it has to go to the dealer. I know the anti-freeze is supposed to be good forever, but I'll have it changed when they do the trans flush. |
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11-24-2015, 04:50 PM
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Diff: 50,000 miles.
Oil: once a year or when oil life is below 30% remaining Auto tranny: not there yet, but scheduled for 100,000 Brake fluid: never Power steering: never Coolant: not there yet, but scheduled for 100,000 |
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11-24-2015, 05:12 PM
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11-24-2015, 05:53 PM
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old school chevy rodder
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Wow people that go 100 K on the anti freeze, Hope your driving 20k a year as after about that its getting pretty acidic and can eat the metal. Recommend five years on antifreeze or less.... People like to ignore the effects of aged antifreeze....
oil with synthetic ls30 by 5000 miles, diff. every few years, Manual trans when recommended.
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11-24-2015, 06:01 PM
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11-24-2015, 06:06 PM
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Per the manufacturer recommended (in the owner's manual). Anything less and I'd have to hire a full time person.
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11-25-2015, 07:46 AM
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That was going to be my addition to the thread. Hope yours is more often than my wife's maintenance manual. |
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11-25-2015, 08:07 AM
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Using Amsoil for engine and diff I change once a year when it comes out of storage in spring. About 10K miles a year. Did brake fluid this year and will change after a handful of track events this next summer. Tranny and coolant this spring at 50K.
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11-25-2015, 09:18 AM
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I have no idea how to correlate about 100 minutes of hard driving on a road course (what a typical track day gives you) to some probably large number of 12-second passes at the dragstrip or runs at autocross (maybe 50-ish seconds each, on average). The better the brake fluid you use, the more frequently you should at least cycle it out via the periodic bleeding you should be doing before each (road course) track day . . . or as occasional maintenance on a car used in DD/dragstrip/autocross service. Norm
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