toobroketoretire
Banned
About 5 years ago I had leaking brake calipers and upon tear down I discovered the bores were pitted real bad because water had gotten into them. I sandblasted the bores then smeared J.B.Weld into them then honed them. They came out as good as new and I've had no more trouble with their seals leaking. But to prevent water from getting into them I made the switch to silicon DOT 5 fluid and began to have trouble 3 months later. All of my brake hoses had swelled up to the point where my brakes didn't work. I found out DOT 5 will severely swell the OEM hoses so I replaced them with the later J-1401 hoses and that took care of the problem.
How many of you have switched to DOT 5 fluid?
How many of you have switched to DOT 5 fluid?