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Problem Reverse Bleeding Disc Brakes
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<blockquote data-quote="oexing" data-source="post: 168141" data-attributes="member: 1493"><p>Again, silicon fluid was a product designed for military vehicles just for the purpose of long storage conditions and no practical change schedules. It was not an idea from Harley or other commercial companies, these would have other ideas like producing a steady demand for services and sale of spares ! So exactly this long storage property is what I expect from silicon fluid and it does its job perfectly. No good reason to compare that with oil changes of engines with very different operating conditions - and certainly no comparisons with glycol brake fluids and their nasty chemicals. And for oil changes , I don´t buy tales about regular changes of gearbox and differential oils on private cars, instead typically run till the thing gets wrecked by other reasons. Sorry, lots of opinions on the subject, same in other forums but no hard facts from own experience. Anybody is free to change silicon fluid as well , if he feels better, just it is a waste of time for decades. At least you don´t have to buy new spares due to rust in the components. </p><p></p><p> vic</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oexing, post: 168141, member: 1493"] Again, silicon fluid was a product designed for military vehicles just for the purpose of long storage conditions and no practical change schedules. It was not an idea from Harley or other commercial companies, these would have other ideas like producing a steady demand for services and sale of spares ! So exactly this long storage property is what I expect from silicon fluid and it does its job perfectly. No good reason to compare that with oil changes of engines with very different operating conditions - and certainly no comparisons with glycol brake fluids and their nasty chemicals. And for oil changes , I don´t buy tales about regular changes of gearbox and differential oils on private cars, instead typically run till the thing gets wrecked by other reasons. Sorry, lots of opinions on the subject, same in other forums but no hard facts from own experience. Anybody is free to change silicon fluid as well , if he feels better, just it is a waste of time for decades. At least you don´t have to buy new spares due to rust in the components. vic [/QUOTE]
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