Tony:
My race car sat for 10 years with used silicone in it. The brakes
are still usable. With that length of storage all kinds of nasty stuff
would have been growing in the LMA, if it were still in the system and not
pooled in the brake shoes.
LMA works great. I will not knock it. For a daily driver to me it
makes the most sense. Top it up and forget about it.
When I completely go through a brake system, and have worries about
leakage, remodeling, long term storage etc. I look very carefully at
silicone.
The race car has had the brake master pulled, relocated, lines
fabricated, cap fall off, etc, etc, etc. There is still paint in the engine
compartment.
I'm not going to go out of my way to recomend silicone. It works
for me in limited applications.
Kelvin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Woodruff [mailto:tonyw@mailmedia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 10:48 AM
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: Brake light switches AND fluid problems
>
>
> <snip>
> With silicone fluid there seems to be a lot of concerns, and
> for some reason evidence of a high
> failure rate. Would I still run silicone? Yep.
> <snip>
>
> Why? Forgive my ignorance, but why wouldn't you just run
> Catrol LMA and be done with it? Does silicone have some
> magical properties that make it stop the car better than Castrol LMA?
>
> Tony Woodruff
> 67 MGB
>
>
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