Synthetic brake fluid does not mean incompatible with old brake systems.
Avoid DOT5 (silicon type fluid), but use DOT4, and all should be well.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL
healeymanjim@hansencc.net wrote:
> just rebuilt a servo in a club members bj8. i now realize that the only
>brake flluid i have is synthetic, which is all that is available. this car has
>never had any of the brake or clutch parts rebuilt to her knowledge and she
>has owned it since picking it up at the factory in 1965. is this new brake
>fluid going to eat up all the old rubber, which i assume is natural rubber and
>not compatable with anything but the old castrol or lockheed type fluid? i
>guess i can warn her to beware, but sure would hate for her to lose her brakes
>again. anyone up on all this? hjim
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