I also started rebuilding the brake system this weekend. I'm switching to DOT 5 silicon fluid so I'll never have to see all that wrinkling paint around my master cylinders again. Use of DOT 5 requires flushing the original fluid out - it's not compatible with any other DOTs.
After the system was completely disassembled I flushed each length of brake line with spray brake cleaner.
For those of you familiar with DOT 5:
- Is this sufficient enough of a flush?
- What happens when DOT 5 "does" encounter some other DOT fluid in your system?
Got plenty of time to mull this over. Won't be able to get to the project until sometime next year.
Ciao! - Jim
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