Hit 200k last week

Hit 200k last week on my silver streak AC SR5. Replaced the shoes in the rear as a present for 11 years of driving socal freeways, accidents, and surviving my "spirited" driving.

Now she will be in to hauling my first kid around which is due next week!

 

As she was in my first day with her

 

Hell yeah. Just breaking in.

 

Nice , my 2008 just turned 315,000 ..

 

What have you done in regards to "repairs"? also have you never changed the rear shoes of the truck since you bought it?

 

Front Discs, shocks, a new tailgate when I dumpstered the last one when I dropped something too hard on it, got a new front clip and hood courtesy of an accident, oil changes, plugs, replaced hoses etc. In regard to the drums I never bothered with them, outside of a quick visual check every now and again, until my brakes went super squishy last week. There was about 1 mm of pad left so they were due anyway. Other than that she is stock, money and lack of a driveway is a limiting factor.

Future maintenance is replacing brake hard lines and flex lines all around. Did a bleed this weekend and the fluid which is about a year old came out black so there is something that is degrading.

 

If you don't bleed the brakes often, that's probably why it was dark. It's not a common talked about maintenance item, but the brake fluid should be bled about every 40k miles. Brake fluid is really good at absorbing water, which in turn causes brake component corrosion, turning brake fluid dark.