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- Path: sparky!uunet!orca!navajo!sbender
- From: sbender@navajo.dsd.es.com (Steve Bender)
- Subject: Re: Dot-5 fluid
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.055521.13600@dsd.es.com>
- Sender: sbender@navajo (Steve Bender)
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- Organization: Evans & Sutherland
- References: <Bx9IJy.Hr6@trc.amoco.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 05:55:21 GMT
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- In article <Bx9IJy.Hr6@trc.amoco.com>, zrol01@trc.amoco.com (Richard O. Lindsay) writes:
- |> I realize that this is probably a many time discussed item.
- |> However, I do not know the answer. Has anyone used the dot-5,
- |> synthetic brake fluid in a Jaguar? I am rebuilding a 1976 XJ-S
- |> that has been abandonded and disassembled for 5 years. After
- |> repainting under the bonnet I would hate to discover a brake
- |> fluid leak by finding the pool of stripped British Racing Green
- |> paint on the garage floor. The hopefully obvious solution
- |> is to use the dot-5 fluid that is relatively harmless to paint.
- |>
- |> Any thoughts or experiences?
- |>
- |> Rick
- |>
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- I use the Dot-5 in my TR4's Girling system and have no complaints.
- Aside from having to re-bleed the system a couple days after first
- filling the system, it has required zero maintenance in 3-years
- and performs perfectly. Some people claim that it should not be
- used in extreme (racing) conditions which may have some validity,
- but its greatest redeeming factor is, as you mentioned, that it
- will not harm paint.
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