[T3] Brake Fluid

[Jim Adney]

On 6 Dec 2017 at 20:00, Keith Park wrote:

> our cars came with ATE blue?  I guess I never knew that!
> Germanautoparts.com sells it, or they did... I used in them.
> I really need to change the fluid in my 93 RX7, its original
> and I boiled the slave cylinder in the clutch on a hot day last summer...
> 
> Cirstallsalot should get a change too, its never been open

If you change the fluid on a car that old that still has it's 
original fluid, you'll be horrified at what it looks like when it 
comes out. It will be brown, filled with mud. Cars with a cast iron 
reservoir on top of the MC will be especially bad. That reservoir 
will appear to have a layer of mud sediment on the bottom.

And it's not mud. It's iron oxide from all the metal surfaces inside 
the brake system. And it doesn't take 20 years; it can happen in 5 to 
8 years.

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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