My sister purchased about a gallon of brake fluid to flush her brakes with. So I flushed her 2011 Subaru Outback’s brakes, the brakes on my dad’s Chevy suburban (2005), and mine. It’s exactly last year’s change. I just took some video instead of pics. I also used my new jack on all the vehicles. It can jack vehicles about 2 feet into the air, which is pretty high off the ground.
The jack underneath my truck. I didn’t jack it up that high, but I sent my sister’s Subaru up to the max height.
I use 6 ton steel jacks. More than enough to hold my truck up.
A short video of me taking the wheels off, sucking out the old fluid from the master cylinder, filling it with the autofiller, taking the wheels off, sucking the fluid out of the system, and gunning the wheels back on.
The old fluid. Some of it was from my sister’s Subaru, and my dad’s Chevy. But the fluid in my dad’s Chevy was actually fairly clear (he doesn’t drive it much). And my fluid was only changed last year. It’s hard to tell if my sister’s fluid was that severely contaminated. She says it brakes a lot better after we flushed her brakes, so who knows.
This is what new fluid looks like, for context.
Set my torque wrench to 140 ft/lbs. Always torque your wheels. Never trust a mechanic who doesn’t torque wheels.