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Re: advice on 318i brakes

> From: [email protected] (Ben L. Richmond)
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 11:47:37 -0500
> Subject: advice
> 
> Dear readers,
> 	I am new on this bmw-digest thing and I need some advice.  I have a 84'
> 318i and earlier this year I had a leak in my slave cylinder and while I was 
> waiting to get this fixed I had to put a lot of brake fluid in.  One morning I
> awoke to find the reservoir empty and in my haste to get going I grabbed the 
> wrong bottle and put power steering fluid in instead of brake fluid.  And a few
> days later I found what I had done.  After I had the slave cylinder replaced.
> So I pumped out the reservoir and bleeded the brakes.  All the time my brakes started to stick.  Then knowing the brakes were sticking I replaced the  driver's 
> side brake caliper.  But this did not help.  I would appreciate any and all 
> advice.
> 							Sincerly,
> 							Ben Richmond 
> 							Machias, Maine

Ben,
	Hah! what an idiotic thing to do!!! Hah!  Yes, I did it too!!!  And
for the life of me I don't know enough about PS fluid to know why it locks 
your brakes up.  I think it's the viscosity of it, which is greater than the
glycerine brake fluid.
	My father's poor Euro 635 went through that with my idiot self.  I
ended up pulling off the reservoir from the master cylinder to remove as much
of the offending stuff as I could.  Then I simply bled the dickens out of the
system.  And this sucker has three bleeders per front caliper, what a bear...
	Flush, flush, flush.  Brake fluid is cheap, esp. that DOT 3 stuff at
$2/32 oz. on sale.  Admittedly this ain't the best for your BMW but it'll 
work nicely to flush. Then go through a bottle of Castrol GT LMA brake fluid
or two to fill up with that: you'll see the output go from yellow to purplish
when it's getting to DOT4 stuff. 
	Flush, flush, flush.
				thi v.