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Re: caliper brake piston rust prevention

To: <ZoboHerald@aol.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: caliper brake piston rust prevention
From: "Gerald M Van Vlack" <jerryvv@alltel.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:12:20 -0500
Yep that's what I thought too. My comment about plastic pistons was just
offering an idea that I think has some merit. I'm not a brake engineer
however and there may be really good reasons it's not a good idea, I don't
know them however.
JVV
----- Original Message -----
From: <ZoboHerald@aol.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: caliper brake piston rust prevention


> In a message dated 12/15/2005 4:33:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> AMfoto1@aol.com writes:
>
> Hey!  Would it be a smart thing to apply POR-15 to only a small part of
the
> caliper brake PISTON'S (on only the inside of the cup-like bottom) as
this
> spot is so prone to rust but yet doesn't touch  anything?
>
>
> ==AM==
> No offense to those who have replied to Paul's question already,  but....
>
> If he's saying what I think he's saying, I don't see how brake fluid
> normally will come in contact with the area he suggests painting, which is
the
> inside of the piston -- the part that faces and presses on the pad.
There's no
> fluid contact there, right?
>
> --Andy Mace


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