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On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:55, Dave Hall wrote: > > Standard brake fluid is completely water soluble, so fluid that's on the shoes > > can just be washed off with plain water. You can wash off the backing plate, > > too. > > > > That's a couple of things I've never put together - over the past 40 years of > looking after my cars I must have read a couple of dozen times that contaminated > brake linings couldn't be cleaned off. > You can clean grease off also, by soaking the shoes in gasoline for a couple hours, and then setting them on fire. (off the car of course) :=) The temperatures are enough to force the oil out, but not hot enough to damage the shoes. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org