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Re: Brake cylinder question

To: James Pickard <geowiz.sgy@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Brake cylinder question
From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:38:50 -0500
James Pickard wrote:
>   There is a reddish, nearly rust-colored,
> substance inside the brake cylinders.  Is this some kind of lubricant? 

Unless you have a redish brake fluid, it's most likey rust.
Brake fluid does absorb moisture and it settles in the bottom of the 
wheel cyls.
Clean it out with brake clean or alcohol.
It is probably time to change the brake fluid too.

-- 
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ




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