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there is not a lot of fluid volume during braking application just a few ml's. BUT over the life of a set of pads there is a lot of fluid movement. Ponder this. You are rolling down the road and apply the brakes. Imagine how much fluid you need to move the pads to apply friction to stop the car ? not a whole lot, BUT Now your pads are just about wasted. The piston (or wheel cylinder) has to move out to take up the slack of the worn pad... that piston has ever so slowly crept out over 30+ thousand miles... Now here YOU come and try to put it ALL back in one fell swoop....sure it would be easy with the cap off.. you're a moving a big volume of fluid(relativly) in a short period of time. This is not hydraulics on an excavator with huge pistons...those systems have very large vents... Our puny system does not need much to work... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/>
