<VV> silicone brake fluid and "Bloody George" (humor?)

[Tony Underwood]

At 09:02 PM 6/21/2007, Louis Armer wrote:
>Sounds like DonorJones should have saved some of that alcohol for 
>medicinal purposes or
>............................Called Dr. Package for some long term 
>relief !!!<GGG>
>
>At 11:25 PM 6/21/2007, you wrote:
>>Whoa!
>>
>>Before you go changing types of brake fluid, you need to know more about
>>what you're doing (no offense intended). You can't go mixing DOT 3 fluid
>>(typically what you find in Corvair brake systems) with DOT 5 (silicone)
>>fluid. I won't even get into the argument for or against either type, but I
>>will say that you will, at a minimum, need to flush your current system with
>>alcohol or some other chemical to remove any trace of the DOT 3 fluid.




Once upon a time, in a '65 'Vair with nasty brake lines, I flushed 
everything with methanol.   Then I flushed it again, until the stuff 
came out clear.   Then I filled the system again, pumped the clear 
alcohol out again etc ad nauseam.   (I had several gallons of 
methanol on hand at the time)

Last fillup of alky I simply left in the system until the next day to 
"soak" things.   Then I needed to move the car around etc, didn't 
think about the methanol in the brake system and never noticed any 
problems with the brakes including a trip town the road to the 
grocers and then to the parts store and a stop at a burger joint 
before it occurred to me that there was no brake fluid in the system, 
just alcohol.

Brakes seemed to work fine.    Not sure I'd have wanted to hit them 
hard enough to heat things up though.    I *Did* flush the system 
again and blow it out with compressed air, through all four corners, 
then put brake fluid back in.


It has occurred to me more than once that I have a lot of moron 
stories like this under my belt.



tony..