Can anyone guess whats mixed here with brake fluid?

Buzzer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:13 pm

Took my 02' limited in the have the Brakes done, and they found this in my brake cylinder,with the Brake fluid....

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:46 pm

Well, tell the story. Who did it? My guess is Service department, but spouse or teen child wouldn't be too far behind.

Buzzer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:48 pm

not sure who did it... wasn't kids, wife or myself........ might have even been there when i bought it used last year sometime........

Jeger · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:13 am

OK, so WHAT is it? Looks pretty funky for sure, water, antifreeze? Maybe someone tried to mix synthetic with regular brake fluid?

Buzzer · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:36 am

ok... some how power stearing fluid got interduced in to my brake system..... they had to replace everything from the master cyl. to the brakes that was rubber and flush the hard lines with alco. the petrolem gets into the rubber parts and cause then to expaned, causeing things to become un safe....

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:53 am

I'd go back to the previous owner and also see if the law can help you get him/her to pay for it.

Buzzer · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:09 pm

got it used from the dealer..... and paper work said everything was good to go.... even though most places just make things with out checking them....

oldMountainMan · **Posted:** Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:21 pm

My mom did this to a '73 Scout, either when I was in High school or in college and home for summer. Sometime in the '70's, anyway. She had put some ATF in the power steering reservoir. This was back when oil and ATF came in cans. Once you opened the can, there was no good way to re-seal the darn things, so she (or maybe it was my dad) had topped of the power steering fluid from a can of ATF, and then she had put the rest of the quart of ATF in a mayonnaise jar, but didn't label it. A few months later she needed brake fluid, and remembered the mayonnaise jar full of "brake fluid" (which was really ATF) and topped of the brake fluid with ATF. A bit later the brakes started acting weird, and master cylinder and all four wheel cylinders had to be rebuilt, and brake system flushed. Expensive lesson in the value of labeling stuff you put in jars.

Jeep Dawg · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:59 am

I would say that some one was the break fluid was low and just put in anything they had.

I have seen this before.
As soon as I saw the picture, I knew it was the P.S. fluid.

Can anyone guess whats mixed here with brake fluid?

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