Why do your brakes slowly lock up on your 96 s10 2WD?

Answer 1

Have you put brake fluid in master cylinder lately ? It sounds like you have put something in the master cylinder that you thought was brake fluid and it expands when cailbers get hot, or engine heat under the hood heats up the brake lines and fluid in the mastercylinder witch in terms expands and creates preasure that pushes brake fluid through the system and applys the brakes real slowly and in time locks brakes. This in time will destroy all rubber parts in the brake system, and this is very costly and will have to be fixed, You may be able to flush the brake system out with new fluid, by removeing master cylinder top and open all the bleeders and let the system gravity bleed itself out. just keep adding brand new dot 3 brake fluid in the resivore as it goes down, do not let it run dry. You will need a lot of fluid, and it will take a lot of time to do this. If your brakes are okay when you first start driveing then slowly start acting up then this is whats wrong. It has something forien mixed in the fluid, UNDERSTAND After flushing the system with a lot of new fluid 2 or 3 times then tighten all 4 bleeders and top off with fluid and drive, If you still have problems, then its to late and you will have to replace all rubber parts in the brake system. MASTER CYLINDER, RUBBER LINES, CAILBERS, WHEEL CYLINDERS AND THE RUBBER LINE BOLTED ON THE TOP OF THE REAR END HOUSING. Good luck. NEUTZ