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Re: Silicone Brake Fluid /

To: "Philip E. Barnes" <peb3@cornell.edu>, <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Silicone Brake Fluid /
From: "Mark A. Erickson" <mlazye@northvalley.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:24:33 -0700
Cc: <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Good idea Phil. Over the years I've Isopropyl alcohol to flush TR systems
several times with no ill effects. The less water content the better.
Followed by a good air dry.

And Jim, its allot cheaper then Brakekleen. The only drawback is you can't
drink it.

Mark
NO TR's now
Had 12 at one time

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> From: Philip E. Barnes <peb3@cornell.edu>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Silicone Brake Fluid
> Date: Friday, September 12, 1997 10:52 AM
> 
> Jim Bauder said:
> "I plan on flushing the lines and front calipers with as much
"BrakeKleen"
> spray cleaner as I can afford
> to buy..."
> 
> I'm not a chemist (even though I play one on TV), but isn't brake cleaner
> some sort of trichlor-type solvent? I'd be afraid that it would attack
the
> elastomers in the system. I think that a better flushing solvent would be
> something like laboratory-grade isopropyl alcohol. Never having done this
> sort of thing, I'm arguing in a vacuum.
> 
> Phil Barnes
> Cortland, NY (nowhere near New York City)
> peb3@cornell.edu
> '71 TR6  CC61193L (20 year owner)
> 

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