Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:27 pm
#1732715
Older British cars had a simple vented reservoir-cap. Some wonderful designs had the master-cylinder below the floor, inside the chassis-leg (Morris Minor) Yep! fill the aperture with spills and slush and rot the Master and the structural- member!
Japanese cars introduced a very soft inverted "top-hat" with a stiff rim which seated on top of the reservoir, under the lid. Unlike most British offerings, the Res. was big enough for all linings to wear out and still have reserve-fluid. Thus, the fluid was hermetically-sealed the crown of the top-hat lay on the surface and moved up and down with fluid displacement. No loss, no replacement and no topping-up until leakage or failure occurred.
Good engineering, designed for reliability and integrity, rather than to rust from the inside -outwards and sell brake-fluid. (an abomination in itself, Citroen use green LHM (and advise that automatic-transmission fluid can substitute under duress, without destroying the rubber components.) Rolls-Royce adopted the Citroen braking and suspension techniques when the Shadow was designed and abandoned the RR363 (AKA DOT3 brake-fluid) with the series 2 Shadow and adopted LHM (which is no longer a Total monopoly and can be had from Castrol and other sources.
Thread- drift at it's finest!
Japanese cars introduced a very soft inverted "top-hat" with a stiff rim which seated on top of the reservoir, under the lid. Unlike most British offerings, the Res. was big enough for all linings to wear out and still have reserve-fluid. Thus, the fluid was hermetically-sealed the crown of the top-hat lay on the surface and moved up and down with fluid displacement. No loss, no replacement and no topping-up until leakage or failure occurred.
Good engineering, designed for reliability and integrity, rather than to rust from the inside -outwards and sell brake-fluid. (an abomination in itself, Citroen use green LHM (and advise that automatic-transmission fluid can substitute under duress, without destroying the rubber components.) Rolls-Royce adopted the Citroen braking and suspension techniques when the Shadow was designed and abandoned the RR363 (AKA DOT3 brake-fluid) with the series 2 Shadow and adopted LHM (which is no longer a Total monopoly and can be had from Castrol and other sources.
Thread- drift at it's finest!
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