Bill, Who is this guy? Have him read the cap on the master cyl. DOT 4 only. Dot 3 is not high enough temp. rating. Unless your going to work on your Vanagon yourself PGh. is a bad place to have a vanagon worked on. No mechanics of any value for your vanagon here in Pgh. ERic Pgh. PA Bill H. wrote: >Was having a mechanic take a look at my brake master cylinder/clutch master >cylinder area for a leak I'm having (couldn't find it myself). He found a >slow leak in the clutch master, topped of the system with Dot 3 and bleed out >the lines to keep me going until the new part shows up. My question is with >the brake/clutch fluid. I think the system may have had Dot 4 in the lines >and although the books say Dot 3 or 4 would be ok, it doesn't say anything >about mixing them. Would adding Dot 3 on top of what may be Dot4 be a >problem? Thanks in advance. > >Bill H. >88 Silver GL >Pittsburgh > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ >http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash > > > > |
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