What's more, it is pretty unlikely that your car still has the original seals.
And they were probably replaced with ones that were made with the same
rubber material that was used for all the other seals used by other makes
and models of cars.
But I still buy DOT4 anyway :-)
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 09:48 PM 12/13/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Actually DOT3 was specified as the fluid to use in the braking
>and clutch hydraulics according to my '78 owners manual (and
>likely to your '80 model as well). While earlier British hydraulic seals
>were undoubtedly destroyed by DOT3, it is my belief that by
>the 70's it could no longer be practical to have the most common
>brake fluid - one that was used in the overwhelming majority
>of autos and one that the average owner/mechanic would utilize
>without a second thought - incompatible to the point of
>rendering the brake system inoperable considering the
>changing attitudes towards maintenance and the increasingly
>litigious nature of Triumph's largest market, the US.
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