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Re: How to? DOT 4/5 to silicone?

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Subject: Re: How to? DOT 4/5 to silicone?
From: peb3@cornell.edu (Philip E. Barnes)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:14:26 +0100
>Just rebuilt the driver's side rear cylinder. Have the car up on blocks and
>thought it would be a good idea to change out the brake fluid.  Have no idea
>what the best way to change out the old DOT to silicone would be. Help!!!

In a word: don't. The amount of effort required to go from DOT to silicone
is probably not worth the time or expense involved. From what I have read
and heard on the subject you must flush ALL the old DOT fluid from the
system, or else you will not gain anything. Hardly a task to be undertaken
casually. Better to use a good DOT fluid and change or flush yearly.

Philip E. Barnes                    '71 TR6  CC61193L
Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-4951
peb3@cornell.edu



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