RE: Brake Fluid Dot 3 ?

["Gary H." <spigot2039@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A fellow I know who is an long time member of the WPC Club swears by this technique: Once a year he takes a suction pump and removes almost all the brake fluid in the car's MC. He then adds fresh fluid. He says he has never had brake problems with his collector cars because of this. His argument is that most of the fluid is in the MC and by changing it every year you never get the sequence of water accumulation/line wheel-cylinder rust/ leaks/ brake failure. 

Thanks,
Gary H.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Herb  
>... Your probably asking why so much bleeding? 
>Technically you should change your brake & Transmission fluid every 30,000
>miles but hardly any one does.  Out of sight out of mind until something
>goes wrong.  Dot 3 & 4 fluid will absorb moisture and as time goes on it
>absorbs more & more eventually corroding the brake lines from the inside out
>  That is when every one complains that MoPar has crap for brake lines when
>it's the owners fault because he has 40 or 50 year old fluid in the system. 
>Nuf Said? ...


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