Brake booster

From: Daniel Levitin (levitin(at)ccrma.stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 11:07:51 CDT


>>
>> I've been down the spongy leaking brake booster road that Brad Sahr
>> describes, too. The seals in our boosters are made of genuine (not
>> synthetic) rubber and you need to use a brake fluid that is especially made
>> for this: standard brake fluids eat up the rubber and deteriorate the
>> seals. I forget what the designation is, something like "DOT 4" but
>> Castrol sells one and any good parts house should be able to tell you what
>> you need. I suspect this is what happened.
>>
>>
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>> Daniel J. Levitin, M.S., Ph.D.
>> Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
>> Stanford University
>> Stanford, CA 94305
>>
>> Visiting Assistant Professor
>> Departments of Psychology and Cognitive Science
>> University of California, Berkeley
>> Berkeley, CA 94710
>>
>> http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~levitin
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