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Re: [FOT] Modern brake fluid/rebuilt Triumph components

To: Hugh Barber <tr6nut@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [FOT] Modern brake fluid/rebuilt Triumph components
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:45:10 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Hugh Barber wrote:

> Randall Young wrote:
> > BTW, the Wikipedia article is flawed as well.  Code of Federal Regulations
> > Title 49, Chapter 5, FMVSS 571.116 defines performance standards for brake
> > fluid, but not what chemicals go in them.  Except for "DOT 5", where it says
> > only that it must be at least 70% "a diorgano polysiloxane".
> >   
> 
> I had heard that while DOT 3 & 4 were polyethylene glycol based, some of 
> the new DOT 5.1 fluids were borate ester based..........

There was a very good article on this topic in GRM (or was it Classic
Motorsports??) in the recent past. Good info.

Thanks Tim (and/or Gary/Per).

:-)

rml
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