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Originally Posted by vstech
I was talking with Roy, and he was talking to someone about this...
it got me thinking...
canola oil begins to burn around 450°F... I know there may be some residues and possibly other issues, but what do you think the results would be?
total replacement of all brake fluid components on an annual basis?
would the calipers gum up and fail quickly?
there's a ton of "GREEN" nuts out there, but tinkering with brakes seems just crazy to me...
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Seems to me that placing an organic fluid into a critical safety system would just be a bad idea. Once the canola oil degraded or other organisms begin inhabiting your brake lines it would only be a matter of time before the inevitable happened.
Why go "green" on brake fluid? It's not like lots of people are driving around leaking brake fluid all over the place. If you leak brake fluid you lose your brakes and you either quit driving or get the leak fixed. Again, it seems to me anyway, that this should be the last thing eco-friendly folks should be worried about - and the last thing they should tamper with if they care about their lives and the lives of others.
Interesting question, but I consider myself "eco-friendly" (in the sense that I am all for conservation and reducing pollutants) and this would be at the bottom of my list of things to be concerned about.
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Last edited by tankowner; 08-26-2009 at 03:44 PM.
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