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Drum Brake wheel cylinders and DOT4

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This is bad. My Ford sedan, with about 500K on the clock, started getting occasional LR lock at low speeds. Spring? Lining come loose?

Nah.

Just enough fluid leakage to get a bit on one shoe (cleaned and sanded), so I dug the box lids and filled out NAPA warranty cards from the glovebox.
Yes, Lifetime Warranty...and yes, they replaced them..parts on the shelf.

But what kind of garbage is this?

All the cards, carefully filled out by me, are dated 1994. I didn't get 25 years out of them!

MUST be the DOT4.
 
Hope they gave you new warranty. Don't think it was DOT 4, just the manufacturing. They did not expect you to have the car over 3 yrs.
 
Gee wiz, after only 500 K miles! Shame they don't make things like they used to. :rolleyes2:
 
I saved the old warranty...new boxes don't have the cards in them. Another 24 years and I'll be visiting them again.

Oh...and DOT5 in an old car like this...seen it, not pretty....new parts just flat leak, and stoplight switches fail every 30-90 days.
 
I wuz thinkin'....I've owned this 68-year-old vehicle for 48+ years, so I guess wheel cylinders lasting half the time I owned the car is probably just in the remote acceptable range if you squint yer eyes....
 
TOC said:
I saved the old warranty...new boxes don't have the cards in them. Another 24 years and I'll be visiting them again.
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Just out of curiosity how old will you be in 24 years? :grin:
 
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