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Fluids checked in all three vehicles just in case we need to flee the wrath of Vidalia Onion hurricane Idalia.
Tires checked to have the proper pounds per square inch.
Basic checks that I do every few weeks anyways.
Something new is The Beast takes Dextron VI transmission fluid for its power steering system.
I wonder if it works as brake fluid too!
One of the few decent things living in Leftist Hell, known as Alachuacountystan, capital city of Gainesgrad, is that by the time a storm reaches us, it's lost 1-2 levels of power. So we're looking for intermittent rain and some winds.
ReplyDeleteFunny, try telling that to the collage (spelled correctly, I'm being funny) students and they won't listen, and often evac right into the landing path of storms. They come back days, weeks later all freaked out. Maybe if they had listened to their elders...
An official brake engineer here.
ReplyDeleteDexron was developed from MIL-H-5606; the storied "cherry juice". It is a petroleum product.
Brake fluids in the U.S. are either a DOT 3, an ethylene glycol mixture similar to anti-freeze. (Don't try mixing anti-freeze and brake fluid. Dot 5 is silicone based. Both fluids use EPDM seals which do NOT like petroleum.
As Terrapod speculated, my tongue was firmly in my cheek when I asked the question.
DeleteGetting a genuine specialist to answer the question as to WHY it won't work kinda makes it worth it.
Sign your work next time.
Yikes! How can you even contemplate such a question? NO - Magik Dextron won't work fer yer brekkies and you will likely have none when the piston seals all fail in each wheel and the ABS. Yeah, I figured you had tongue firmly planted in cheek, but still......... stop scaring your readers.
ReplyDeleteThis conversation prompted me to see what Citroën used for brake fluid. Apparently some 80s and 90s cars used the same LHM hydraulic oil as the famous suspension spheres. Some bicycle brakes also use mineral oil instead of DOT 5 fluid.
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