Synthetic brake fluid question

[rsbcruiser]

Rust?

Yep, rust, don't lnow if was there before went back to dot 3 but the brake system worked fine before the switch. So, dot 5 for 5 years and no problems? Hmmmm, if I could swing a completely new system it would be tempting .

 

[JB740i]

I went and bought one of those ss lines (no give). with that in mind I cinch up the slave to the hose using an adjustable wrench and a regular ol wrench. Install and then cinch tight the hose. This way, no twist and I don't have to seperate the other end. Took it for a test drive. Seems to be holding for now. One thing I noticed was there seems to be less clutch chatter now. Has anyone ever heard of this? Maybe the slave piston was hanging up.

Where'd ya get the single stainless line? I've got them as brake lines and the rear one got too close to the muffler and burnt off the plastic.

 

[rsbcruiser]

Where'd ya get the single stainless line? I've got them as brake lines and the rear one got too close to the muffler and burnt off the plastic.

Oh wait, thought you were refering to the clutch line. No matter, the answer is the same. I bought all of my ss hydro lines from Spector Off Road, SOR. The ss lines are made by Goodyear. I am including this pic of my ss clutch line anyways, just because.

 

[rsbcruiser]

On my front flex line I rotated the block shown in order to keep this line away from the headers. You might want to try this with your back line. Of course doing this might make it much harder to deal with the hard line connectors down the road. When I ordered the ss flexy line I went with the longer one, just in case. I plan on raising the rig a little.

 

[KOOTENAY KRUZER]

You can get MIL-H-5606 at any aircraft or helicopter maintenance shop. It is a mineral based red coloured oil and is not compatible with seals meant for glycol based liquids, although that may not be true nowadays if the "rubber" components of your brake system are actually made of synthetic materials.

Every material (gas, liquid, or solid) that is known to man is compressible. Liquids are far less compressible than gasses, and solids (generally) less compressible than liquids. This would seem to suggest that liquids with lower viscosities may be more compressible than liquids with higher viscosities. If there are any physicists on here we may get a definitive on this.