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Re: New Brake fluid

To: Brian Borgstede <borgstede@umsl.edu>
Subject: Re: New Brake fluid
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:08:24 -0800
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
References: <v03007803b31f18db0c6c@[134.124.176.30]>


Brian Borgstede wrote:
> 
> Since the topic has been drug up to the surface again,
> from the pit of threads that never die...
> 
> If DOT 3&4 brake fluids take on water as they do,
> Why are the master cylanders on our LBCs vented to the outside air?

Oh, That one's easy!  The vent is so that when the fluid gets hot it
will expand and leak out the hole and onto your freshly painted engine
compartment.  This of course will cause the paint to bubble up and come
off in sheets!

Perhaps there was an agreement between the Auto paint manufacturers and
Girling like the one that apparently exists between the windscreen
suppliers and the people who deliver crushed rock in the State of
Washington (and perhaps elsewhere).  8^)

Joe

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