New brake fluid in

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko)
10/21/2017 at 16:05 • Filed to: None

Shame that they don’t have the blue stuff anymore.

DISCUSSION (13)

Biggus Dickus (RevsBro) > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
10/21/2017 at 16:13

I’m an rbf600 sucker myself. Wish it was colored though

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
10/21/2017 at 16:15

So I need to look elsewhere when my 3 cans are gone. My Motive bleeder is permanently stained blue.

Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
10/21/2017 at 16:21

Love Typ200, this stuff is awesome for a max effort car that sees street use. Used it in a very extensively in my Veloster that was geared towards autocross. Great stuff right here.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
10/21/2017 at 16:58

There was a federal standard that only allowed for clear to amber color for brake fluid. Thus the funky custom color had to go to still be legal.

AfromanGTO > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
10/21/2017 at 17:26

It was banned because it was fucking blue.... Stupid ass government.

I use Motul Spec 5.1 personally.

Kinja'd!!!

Urambo Tauro > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/21/2017 at 17:29

Yeah, I was really bummed about that. I certainly would have paid attention to what fluid I was putting in which reservoir. Always do.

Nothing > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
10/21/2017 at 18:17

I still have a couple of sealed, unopened Super Blue that I bought just before they stopped selling it here.

MM54 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
10/21/2017 at 19:27

I have typ200 in all of my automotive hydraulics except the clutch in the rx7, which will be getting it whenever I get around to bleeding/flushing it.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Urambo Tauro
10/21/2017 at 21:04

Remember, there was a time when a leaked fluid could be readily identified with nearly no doubt.

Clear-light amber: brake

Green: radiator

Red: ATF

Dark amber to black: oil

Gasoline is pretty slam dunk in the “clear and smells like gasoline#

So if you left a puddle, it was easy to figure out what is leaking.

Urambo Tauro > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/22/2017 at 01:25

Yeah, I mean I can appreciate that sort of mindless convenience to help simplify things. But banning blue brake fluid means banning another sort of convenience- the convenience of having a more definitive color change to look for when pumping new brake fluid through the lines.

And that’s all it should be about- convenience. Really, if somebody’s going to pay so little attention to what they’re doing that they’re going to ignore symbols and words and just pour-by-color, then maybe they shouldn’t be working on a car in the first place...

pip bip - choose Corrour > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
10/22/2017 at 02:46

blue Brake Fluid is still sold here in Australia.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Urambo Tauro
10/22/2017 at 11:49

Identifying a mysterious puddle as brake fluid is useful. Especially given the standard was made in an era of single master cylinders.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
10/23/2017 at 11:36

Good stuff.