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brake fluid flush, procedures? |
TheCabinetmaker |
Apr 20 2004, 03:07 PM
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I drive my car everyday Group: Members Posts: 8,301 Joined: 8-May 03 From: Tulsa, Ok. Member No.: 666 |
I'm going to my novice DE at Hallett raceway in two weeks, and need to replace my dot 3 with dot 4. I did a search but nothing came up. Everything else on the car is up to specs. Whats the best method to do this? Is it just bleeding the brakes till all the fluid is changed? Do I drain the entire system, then refill and bleed, bleed, bleed?
Thanks in advance, Curt |
Don Wohlfarth |
May 5 2004, 03:30 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 8-January 03 From: Fairfax, VA Member No.: 117 |
QUOTE(Lawrence @ Apr 28 2004, 09:49 AM) I'm sure that someone will correct me if I'm wrong... but stainless lhoses are still rubber on the inside. The rubber swells (to the inside) with age. Stainless braided hoses need to be replaced at approximately the same interval as their OEM counterparts. They're cheap insurance. It's your brake system, though. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) -Rusty (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif) Lawrence, I know the lines are plastic on the inside, guess they could be teflon. I belong to the "Don't Fix It If It Ain't Broke School". I think the stainless line sets came from someone seeing them on a race car. Race car teams do a lot of stuff to their cars to eliminate problems. Probably some driver did a off course and cut up a rubber line, the engineer said I can fix that! On race cars everything gets inspected and parts are routinely replaced including flexible stainless brake lines. Your car will not stop any better with flexible stainless lines than it will with good OE rubber lines. If anyone had a brake problem and replaced the rubber lines with stainless and the problem went away there may have been 2 problems. Either the existing rubber lines was 30 yrs old and so deteriorated they would not pass brake fluid or the fluid had so much air/water in it that the brakes didn't work properly. When you have rubber lines you can see if they're swollen, kinked, cut, or leaking. You cannot always tell what is going on with the stainless lines. OTOH on the street someone may see the stainless lines and that makes them priceless. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) |
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