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1. Okay, I'll bite (score: 1)
Author: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 08:36:51 -0400
I don't mean to start a heated discussion about this but... Me and me mates have been using silicon brake fluid in our lbcs for many years and up until about a month ago, when my own brake switch gav
/html/mgs/1996-07/msg00010.html (7,744 bytes)

2. Re: Okay, I'll bite (score: 1)
Author: Michael Chaffee <mchaffee@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 11:06:58 -0500 (CDT)
Actually, it was my impression that that great determiner of automotive fashion, the U.S. military, was in the process of phasing the stuff out, and most likely this would signal the end of the trend
/html/mgs/1996-07/msg00046.html (9,425 bytes)

3. Re: Okay, I'll bite (score: 1)
Author: Jedracer@aol.com
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 21:46:28 -0400
Interesting comments about Dot5 fluid and brake light switches. I have used Dot 5 in both my '62 MGB and my '70 XKE for a while, then suddenly last year in the space of a week the brake switches went
/html/mgs/1996-07/msg00069.html (6,960 bytes)

4. Re: Okay, I'll bite (score: 1)
Author: John Knight <taoistjd@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 96 08:21:09 -0400
The ammount of moisture that the fluid will absorb is how the ratings work. Dot 5 absorbs half that of Dot 4. It is also true that it will not eat paint like Dot3&4. I heard that it did not work wit
/html/mgs/1996-07/msg00080.html (7,632 bytes)

5. Re: Okay, I'll bite (score: 1)
Author: KILE_PAUL@aphub.aerojetpd.com (Paul D Kile)
Date: 02 Jul 96 06:40:13 PDT
We're not sure what causes the switches to fail using DOT 5, but my hypothesis is that the silicone fluid has a high dielectric and acts like an insulator on the switch internal contacts. If someone
/html/mgs/1996-07/msg00088.html (7,262 bytes)

6. Re: Okay, I'll bite (score: 1)
Author: BLECKSTEIN@SHELL.MONMOUTH.COM
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 21:45:33 -0400
with silicon and five with regular fluid. All my brake switch failures (2) in the last five years has been with regular fluid cars. Mike Leckstein
/html/mgs/1996-07/msg00133.html (7,272 bytes)

7. Re: Okay, I'll bite (score: 1)
Author: BarneyMG@aol.com
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 02:54:03 -0400
I've been running DOT 5 in my '58 MGA for ten years now, no brake switch failure. If DOT 5 actually caused these failures I would expect them all to fail within some predictable period of time, proba
/html/mgs/1996-07/msg00141.html (7,155 bytes)


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