[DeTomaso] Clutch master and slave fluid

Espen Graffer espeng at getmail.no
Thu Apr 17 08:01:23 EDT 2014


I believe that's a bad idea. The rubber in brakesystems is not compatible
with mineral oil, and will quickly swell and become nonfunctional.
 
espen in norway
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> Its a bad day when the slave leaks and eats up the paint !!
 
You might want to try mineral oil.  That's what the disc brakes on my
mountain bike use.  They work really well, much better than the rim
brakes on the road bike.
 
Dan Jones
 
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Mike McDougal <
<http://poca.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso_poca.com> mdmcdougal at
gmail.com> wrote:
>    With all this talk of clutch master and slave cylinders-----
>    I was wonderingA A  Could jack oil or ATF be used instead of brake
>    fluid ?
>    Its a bad day when the slave leaks and eats up the paint !!
>    Mike McDougalA  #3482

> 

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I believe that's a bad idea. The rubber in brakesystems is not compatible with m
ineral oil, and will quickly swell and become nonfunctional.

espen in norway
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> Its a bad day when the slave leaks and eats up the paint !!

You might want to try mineral oil.  That's what the disc brakes on my
mountain bike use.  They work really well, much better than the rim
brakes on the road bike.

Dan Jones

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Mike McDougal <[1]mdmcdougal at gmail.com> wrot
e:
>    With all this talk of clutch master and slave cylinders-----
>    I was wonderingA A  Could jack oil or ATF be used instead of brake
>    fluid ?
>    Its a bad day when the slave leaks and eats up the paint !!
>    Mike McDougalA  #3482

   >

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