DOT 4 brake fluid

[Brett Dikeman]

At 2:49 AM -0700 9/25/04, William Magliocco wrote:
>WRT to Mr. Dikeman, I have usually seen Castration Oil
>(Castrol) brand fluid in white bottles...but their
>"GT-LMA" formula IS DOT 4.
>
>So is the Valvoline Synthetic, which is in a brown or
>gold colored bottle...

Ah, you're right- its Valvoline.  Sorry.


>One cheap thing I do is to remove as much of the brake
>fluid as I can out of the reservoir with a turkey
>baster, then refill with DOT 4 EVERY time I change the
>engine oil...I do a similar thing with the ATF...

Changing the fluid in just the reservoir is next to pointless, unless 
you're doing it right before bleeding the system to keep saturated 
fluid from getting pushed into the system.  Most people, however, 
flush that fluid out when doing the longest run (to the right rear 
wheel, in many older Audis).

Oh- please don't change subject lines; it makes it difficult to 
follow a thread and confuses the archive generator...

Brett
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