Re: Clutch hydraulic question

Jul 15, 2003 1 Replies

"Tim Watkins" wrote


Is there any particular reason why they decided to use brake fluid in the
> system? I've got a leaking slave cylinder (96 Pontiac Grand AM). It's
> not worth the money or effort to fix the issue. It's a very slow leak,
> but just fast enough (in summer) to be irritating. I was thinking I could
> flush the whole system out and put power steering fluid in the system with
> the stop leak stuff. Might be just enough to stop the leak for a year or > two.

Ever seen what happens when some lube flunky mistakenly puts ps fluid in a brake master cylinder? Same thing will happen in your scenario.


What do ya think?

Either fix the thing right, or just park the car.



Ian


Besides the aforementioned issues of reducing the risk of mixing fluids in the car, there's the cost-driven need to keep the number of different fluids low, plus there are technical reasons as well. Brake fluid has a boiling temperature that is extremely high, espeically critical for disk brake systems, and it maintains it's viscosity at very low temperatures. Regular hydraulic oil will thicken up a lot at below freezing temps.

JazzMan

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