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Re: [T3] Allen Moore's brake line replacement available...


On 1 Nov 98, at 9:03, Steven Ayres wrote:

> 
> JimA=> one only gets the full benefit out of the Silicone DoT-5 brake 
>     => fluid if the old fluid is removed as completely as possible.
> 
> The ability to mix them might even be useful. If DoT-4 is a little 
> more compressible, it seems on the surface that you could apply a 
> certain proportion of it for a degree of stiffness somewhere between the
> two. Or are they more or less functionally the same?

I think they are pretty much the same, at least to the limits of our 
perception.  I don't think there is any reason to mix; the silicone 
is pretty expensive, and it would be rather pointless to put it in 
there and still have a bunch of the old stuff causing rust.

Jim

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