On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:00:19 -0000 (UTC), Mad Roger
> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:34:51 -0500,
> Tekkie+AK4- wrote:
>
>> have you checked the hoses yet? Don't bother with pix.
>
>Hi Tekkie,
>Thanks for your advice.
>Please see my detailed response to your other post.
>
>As for hoses, I'm not trying to overhaul the vehicle - so I haven't checked
>anything.
>
>In fact, I wasn't even looking for brake issues, because the owner didn't
>report any brake issues. I was simply rotating her tires for her, and since
>I had the wheels off, I popped the pins out of the rotor to look at the
>pads in front and I pulled the shoe off to look at the shoes in the rear.

o thios is not your own vehicle and you are doing brake work on it?

Ihope to hell you have good insurance!!!!!!!!
>
>So, my main goal is just to refresh the pads and shoes, but it's sound
>advice when I do the job on a weekend to check her hoses and cable for
>fraying.
>
>So what I'll do, as per your helpful advice, is buy the pads and probably
>the rebuild kit, and then when I do the job, I'll inspect from the front to
>the rear all the cables and hoses.

Call your insurance company and tell them what you are doing.
It is ILLEGAL in most provinces and states - and financially VERY
dangerous foran unqualified person to do safety related repairs on a
third party's vehicle.
>
>I'll also order a liter of DOT4 fluid (even though it only specifies DOT3),
>and I'll borrow her kid and replenish her entire brake fluid until it is
>all new too.
>
>Thanks for the advice.
>
>Remember, none of us differ except that I seem to be caring more about
>friction for friction materials while others care more about it being the
>OEM spec - both of which aren't necessarily different.
>
>However, if the OEM spec is E, I will likely refuse to put them on the
>vehicle as I have never put anything less than F on any vehicle.


Then you are CRAZY as MOST vehicles come with ee, or at best EF
brakes standard equipment.