[DeTomaso] New Castrol GT LMA Brake Fuid and word synthetic

Robert Kirk kirkbrit at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 21 16:01:08 EDT 2009


I suspect you are leaping your logic.  What's true of motor oil is not necessairly true of brake fluid.  LMA is a pure laboratory made fully synthetic brake fluid with no water lov'n
glycol.  In the case of Silicon DOT 5, the molecules are so tiny that air gets imbedded between them.  That is partially the reason for the spongy nature and partly the reason race car drivers are often unable to feather brakes because of the air which is super heated. All carbon based molecules are huge by comparison and can be especially attractive to hydrogenized oxygen (water).  A sythetic in nice short clean molecular design without the hydrocarbon chains is less attrative or attracted to water...hydo=water philo=love.

In the case of synthetic motor oil the fact that the molecules are of similar size is the reason mineral oil purists say synthetic won't stick and hold and provide a protective rust barrier and be there when a sitting motor is fired.  They compare synthetic oil to being like hard water while I compare it to my teenage over sexed daughter both seem looking for a chance to run off.  
If you have followed my recent ramblings, you will note that by inclusion of any additive any motor oil may be called a synthetic blend.  IF Bob the other oil guy said what you say he said, he is wrong.  Mobile 1 sued Castrol over its boast of being synthetic due to it only breaking the parrafin chain of its mineral oil base in the refining process.  Mobil lost and it is then the court ruled that even the addition of additives constitutes the word and fact of "synthetic" on an oil's label.  
 
Now I only hope that, that is clearer than used oil!



Regards,
Robert Kirk
www.kirks-auto.com
 

--- On Sat, 3/21/09, pantdino at aol.com <pantdino at aol.com> wrote:


From: pantdino at aol.com <pantdino at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] New Castrol GT LMA Brake Fuid
To: kirkbrit at yahoo.com, DeTomaso at realbig.com
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 2:27 PM



My comment was based on the fact that according to bobistheoilguy.com even "full synthetic" oils are only partially made up of synthesized molecules.
How do the molecules in synthetic brake fluid differ from non-synthetic?
In synthetic oil the advantage is that they are all more similar in length than in non-synthetic.  Is this the case in brake fluid, too?  

Why is LMA fluid less hydrophillic than DOT 3 fluid?
Anyone know?






-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Kirk <kirkbrit at yahoo.com>
To: DeTomaso at realbig.com
Cc: jefude at bellsouth.net
Sent: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 9:11 am
Subject: [DeTomaso] New Castrol GT LMA Brake Fuid


jefude at bellsouth.net

Subject: [DeTomaso] New Castrol GT LMA Brake Fuid



 

Its the same product just new labeling.  It has created quite a stir.  But is 

the same stuff....LMA has always been synthetic.  It is DOT 4 or 3/4  

On the other hand the statement that all brake fluids are synthetic isn't 

accurate.  Anything DOT 3 would be carbon chain. ie. petro based ie. glycol.  

DOT 5 is synthetic silicon which, may not be as bad as I my past 

opinion....MAYBE.

DOT 5.1 is glycol based on steroids.





Regards,

Robert Kirk

www.kirks-auto.com

 





      

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