Re: The picking of nits

[Avi <Avi@cosmoslink.net>]

Mineral oils ARE NOT HYGROSCOPIC meaning, will not absorb moisture which
will change the boiling temperature (as in brake fluid),
Avi


At 05:02 PM 12/18/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Alex,  no buzzer... a typing error I'm sure... but you did mean
>hygroscopic, right?    
>
>Regards,  Gross Scruggs
>
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>> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:20:39 EST
>> From: Audial <Audial@aol.com>
>> Subject: Re: 5k rack survey, '86-'88.
>> 
>> I bought my '86 5KCSTQ with 93K mi. on the clock.
>> 
>> It had a newly installed ZF-remanufactured hydraulic pump (I wonder how
>much
>> the o-rings cost ZF?) and a replacement rack at the time of purchase,
>along
>> with a new clutch, clutch hydraulics, alternator and exhaust (Ansa).  
>> 
>> The rack on my dad's 86 5K wagon seemed to last a little longer - it
>started
>> hemorraging at about 125,000 miles.
>> 
>> All that I can hope is that the shop that did the work was savvy and
>installed
>> a stainless-sleeved remanufactured rack in place of the old one.  
>> 
>> (You know, just as an aside, it's funny to me that older Corvettes from
>the
>> time of the introduction of 4-wheel disc brakes in 1965 (?) leaked like
>sieves
>> from all 16 pistons after about, say, 50,000 miles or several years,
>until a
>> cottage industry grew up around sleeving the caliper bores with stainless
>> steel.  You should have seen the crap that was inside the piston bores of
>the
>> front calipers of my '68 when I took them apart.  Looks like the same
>stuff
>> that comes out of an old steam-heat radiator).  
>> 
>> Is Pentosin hydroscopic?
>> 
>> Best Wishes,
>> Alex
>> 
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