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Originally Posted by prototoast
Not if it's DOT fluid.
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Yah even if you are starting from scratch with a bare frame if you have to cut a pre-filled line that came with OEM brakes you really want to put something like the Reverb barb on there and then clean up with alcohol before going near the frame, especially with DOT fluid.
Realistically though you have plenty of time to clean up DOT fluid. It is not like getting alcohol on latex paint where an immediate wipe with a rag will pull some of the paint off with the alcohol.
Having a paint problem with DOT fluid is really an issue when you spill it on the paint and don't even clean it up at all. Not likely on a bike. It's a bigger problem on a car or motorcycle because they have more lines, they run through more complex places, and there are more places where the fluid could spill and/or accumulate and you miss it but then it later drips or flows onto a visible paint spot.
The only time I ever damaged paint with DOT fluid was on a motorcycle that had linked brakes... there were bleed ports on the lines that ran between the front and back of the bike through the frame. I had a little spill when working with one of those ports, could not get all the fluid out, then overnight it seeped onto paint. Pretty easily touched up though. Motorcycles with non-linked brakes it was pretty hard to actually spill anywhere like that as they are basically like a bicycle but with 3 brakes, possibly with a bleed problem where the master cylinder lines split to go to the two front calipers.
At this point now that I have all the tools I'd kind of prefer being able to buy an OEM brake set with no fluid pre-filled in it.
05-10-2024, 11:10 AM
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