Allen,
You have prbably damaged all the seals in the M/C and slave. My
recommendation is to clean out the system now and check the seals. If by
some strange quirk of fate, your mixture of 3 to 4 was diluted to restict
damage to a minimum, consider yourself quite lucky.
Larry Zink
1964 Spitfire4 Mk1
Houston, Texas
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Nugent <A.Nugent@unsw.edu.au>
To: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 11:11 PM
Subject: brake fluid
>
>James, Barry,
>
>I've got a mix of Dot 3 and Dot 4 in my TR7 clutch, since about 1 month
ago.
>(Both are Castrol). Should I drain it and replace with pure Dot 4? Will the
>seals still fail prematurely even if I remove the Dot 3 now?
>
>Allen Nugent
>Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
>University of New South Wales
>Sydney 2052 Australia
>
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