RE: How to: 65 C-body disc brake conversion (1st installment) LONG READ!

[Herb <zephyr9900@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe they know a little something about what ill affects Dot 5 has on your system?  Dot 5 jacks system rubber parts up by saturating them with silicone, a lot of times causing hard pedals, early failure and so on!  It is also hell on hydraulic brake light switches!  Switch to dot 5 you cant go back unless you replace ALL rubber in the system including hoses to keep it from slugging up or just selfdistructing.  Dot 3/4 absorbs moisture/condensation/dirt and holds it in suspension till it is saturated, and at that point it starts rusting.  dot 5 wont absorb moisture, and lets condensation/dirt sink to low spots in your system causing rust issues quicker.  Your supposed to change your brake fluid about every 25K, not wait till it is saturated with moisture and starts to rust from the inside out.  Unless your taking your car from one weather/environmental extreme to another like say the military, or a high speed race car with extreme braking, dot 5 is of no practical benefit other than being able to be one of the sheople that gets a worm fuzzy feeling spending a lot of extra money on snake oil.  Yes I know the hype, D5 wont damage my paint, I just don't pour D3 or D4 on my paint!  Problem solved!!  I doubt many if any people on this site drive their cars in, or, to the extreme that D5 is designed to be used for! 

 

Also, if you do use D5 in your system your supposed to mark your master as such because it is NOT compatible with D3 or D4, a step no one does that I have seen.

 

I am sure I just kicked the old Dot bees nest, but I have had many years of experience converting systems over and back because of the problems.  O, BTW MPB is not the lone ranger with that policy!  I ONLY use Dot 4 in all of my cars and I change it about every 25K or 5 years along with my coolant, tranny & dif fluids.  No one changes these till they have problems, then it's too late.  In addition, funding had nothing to do with me not using Dot5 because I could get all I wanted for free.   I just did not want all the probable issues on my cars.  If it ain't broke don't fix it!!

 

 

 

 

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From: Cory Rempel

Date: 7/9/2014 6:35:33 AM

To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: How to: 65 C-body disc brake conversion (1st installment) LONG READ!

 

Hey Lyle, why would MPB forbid DOT 5 fluid?  Seems kinda weird.

 

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