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Re: Green brake fluid/ Question for Brian Sanborn

To: <michaelgajic@hotmail.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Green brake fluid/ Question for Brian Sanborn
From: ZoboHerald@aol.com
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:51:03 EDT
In a message dated Tue, 21 Aug 2001  3:20:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Michael 
Gajic" <michaelgajic@hotmail.com> writes:

> Brian (everyone),
> 
> During my new brake switch installation I found that my brake fluid is a 
> deep olive green colour. I noticed in the archive that you had a similar 
> brake fuild colour question a couple of years back. Did you figure out what 
> type of brake fluid it originally was?

FWIW, I seem to recall Castrol-Girling "Crimson" brake fluid back when the cars 
were new in the 1960s. There was also a "green" fluid (can't remember if it was 
supposed to be a high-performance fluid or ????). Both were more or less 
supplanted by the "Amber" and, later, the GT/LMA still available now.

I don't think I still have any cans of any of the old colors, but I suspect 
most all of them were DOT3. And I don't recall seeing Crimson or Green in 
nearly 30 years now, so you might have some really old brake fluid in your car 
(if, indeed, it's Castrol-Girling fluid)! :-)

--Andy Mace

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