[Spridgets] Re What fluid for clutch Master cylinder

[Guy R Day]

Kurt,
Your comments fall in line with most of those others who have used DOT 5 to 
replace DOT 3 or 4.

BUT if you think that it is a safe or OK way of treating a weeping master 
cylinder by wadding paper towels beneath it I am gobsmacked!!  If you know 
the system has failed - and weeping means it HAS FAILED - and you carry on 
driving it; then I for one would ask that you be treated as a murderer when 
the accident happens and the child dies.  You KNOW they are faulty, please 
get them fixed.
I know I have been emotive in the paragraph above but offer no apology and 
neither will I.  For the past 30 odd years of my life I have had to deal 
with death caused by vehicles.  You will find it hard to extract any 
sympathy from me.  To know of a serious defect beforehand and then to carry 
on driving it is similar to pointing the cocked gun with a faulty trigger.

Apologies for the rant but not for the content.

Guy R Day

ps.  What seals do you need?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kurt Appley" <kmappley at gmail.com>
To: <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 2:10 PM
Subject: [Spridgets] Re What fluid for clutch Master cylinder


> Well I'm trying my darnedest to stay out of the on going ethanol debate 
> but
> since I can't seem to avoid controversy I have to comment on Dot 5 fluid. 
> I
> bought a 72 MGB and rebuilt it in the mid 70's. Bought it cheap with dings
> everywhere. The brakes were already giving the tell tale signs we are all
> familiar with so I completely redid them with the then new Dot 5 silicone
> fluid.
>
> A friend now owns that car and the brakes still work as they should and 
> have
> never even been bled since my work in the 70's.
>
> I now own some cars that I have converted to Dot 5 and some cars running 
> Dot
> 4. I'm trying to live with Dot 4 since I like the brake feel better. Dot 4
> has a thinner viscosity that I think I prefer and recently rebuilt dual
> master cylinders don't seem to seal as easily though with use they seem to
> be reducing the amount they seep. I have been wadding up a paper towel in
> front of the cylinders to catch the seep and that has worked just fine. 
> BTW
> I believe that Dot 5 has a higher boiling point than Dot 4 if I recall
> correctly.
>
> Kurt.
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