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brake fluid symptoms
I'm going to take this to a shop on monday, but I'm just wondering about your opinions.
I took the SVX to California Speedway last week for a track event(very fun, very hot, very scary at first) And noticed my brake fluid was low and saw signs of leaking. I parked it overnight and had my brake light come on the next day. The fluid was almost empty. I filled it up and that seemed to fix the problem. All this time, fluid seemed clean. Today I noticed that there were very weird particles in the brake fluid, so much so that it was almost opaque. I brought it a 76 gas station (its a saturday!) and they soaked up the resevoir with a rag and filled it with fresh fluid. I drived about 5-10 miles and check teh fluid again, and its almsot back to the same murky opaque color. Now I wouldnt be worried if it was just murky, but there are definate signs particles in there. I dare say it almost looks like miso soup . Any idea whats contaminating my fluid and where it is leaking? There are signs of wetness right under the resevoir, but I dont see anything obviously leaking.(maybe all those sideways g's spilled some fluid from under the cap.) The braking power seems a little off, may be my imagination. The worst part is that I need to take an urgent 400 mile trip today and all the shops I called said to bring it in on monday.
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Henry Yei htyei@svxwrx.com 1992 Dark Teal LS-L w/o spoiler "OLIVIA" http://www.svxwrx.com Last edited by htyei; 06-22-2002 at 06:24 PM. |
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Re: brake fluid symptoms
I have no idea what the problem is, but I would take it in and have them check for leaks. If there are none, or after having the leak fixed, I would then have them do a complete fluid replacement. That shouldn't cost more than about 40 bucks.
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