From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri May 05 2006 - 17:38:33 PDT
At 7:07 PM -0400 5/5/06, Wayne Harris wrote:
> >DOT3 and 4 will absorb water from the vent
>over time and >needs to be flushed to remove
>this.
>
>But that is only if the vehicle is not driven on
>a regular basis and that is the main reason the
>miltary switched over to the DOT-5 back before
>we became busy in all corners of the world.
DOT3 and 4 will absorb water over time, and over
shorter amounts. The big issue is that it will
happen and racers tend to switch to DOT 5 because
of tht.
>The vent will still allow water in the system
>and because the DOT-5 will not absorb water, it
>will settle to the low points in the system and
>stay there rusting out the steel piping. Wayne
But it still doesn't get absorbed as quickly as with DOT3/4
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