[Shop-talk] storing brake components?

[Doug Braun]

If brake fluid is so awful, why do they use it in brakes?

Doug

--- On Tue, 1/13/09, Randall <tr3driver at ca.rr.com> wrote:
From: Randall <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] storing brake components?
To: shop-talk at autox.team.net
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 6:05 PM

You're quite right, conventional brake fluid will destroy the components in
relatively short order.  Somewhere, I've got a pair of brand new rear brake
cylinders that a previous owner filled with conventional fluid and plugged
the opening ... they are totally ruined.

But I've had good luck using DOT 5 brake fluid as a long term preservative
for brake components.