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- From: mikeb@nowaksg.chem.nd.edu (Michael George Buening)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Brakes
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.193617.26901@news.nd.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 19:36:17 GMT
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- At lower pressures, dissolved air in a fluid can "fall out"
- of solution. That is to say that when you go to higher altitude
- the atmosphere pressure is lower so the amount of air that will
- stay dissolved in the brake fluid is lower. I don't know that there
- should be much dissolved air in the brake fluid and I'm not sure
- this is an answer but it may be something to consider. If there
- is a way an abnormal amount of air is being added to the fluid
- during normal operations at lower altitudes this could manifest
- itself as a large air bubble in the brake line at higher altitudes.
- Just a thought.
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- --Michael Buening
- internet:mikeb@nowaksg.chem.nd.edu
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