While I was replacing my clutch master yesterday (damn RockAuto sent me a weird angled one, had to put the old one back on :aargh ) I accidentally spilled some brake fluid on some oxidised paint and to my surprise it made the paint look less oxidised. I went back out today and it still looked good, so I lightly went over all the oxidised paint on the front of my car and it looks so much better. I always thought brake fluid ruined paint? What the hell man? Aaron.
:shock WTF...... Brake fluid Houston! it does not compute. Wrong part, don't you just hate that, if it's not your fault it makes you wanna ring em up and tell them to send a mechanic round to fit the CORRECT one at THEIR expense huh...... :cuss
Bloody annoying it was. My old master cylinder is leaky, so I did the whole bleed and fill till there was no bubbles. Went to drive around the shed to put the sleeka back inside, go to shift into first, OMG SO SMOOTH!! Then shifting into reverse it was back to it's old tricks Aaron.
$45? Rockauto sells them for around $15 I emailed them and should be getting the right one soon. What would terps do to the paint? Aaron.
brake fluid spilling on paint will look much better than original. for about a month. then it'll eat it's way through.
Yes, that's a bargain but the postage? I didn't have time to wait either We use turps to clean heavily soiled cars and to remove excess glue from cars. Turps is also good for re-vitalizing faded vinyl and cleaning dirty signs In 20yrs I've only ever seen it attack some enamel and household paints, it will attack certain types of plastic too, models and other types of display plastics (ie record player lids) should be kept well away. The trick with any solvents is to do a small test strip 1st and leave it for a few days. Mafix is 100% right, luckily brake fluid will wash off with water Reverse has no syncro's, two gears are brought together by a third smaller gear being rammed between them (which also reverses the rotation). If the gear teeth are worn the only solution is to replace. The thing to remember is that older boxes spin more than new boxes (less friction) - so you need to wait longer for the spinning gears to slow down before engaging reverse
