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Pancake Valve: Clean it w/brake cleaner and let dry...done? or rinse out brake cleaner w/sumthing?

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Old 05-19-2008, 05:03 PM
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Pancake Valve: Clean it w/brake cleaner and let dry...done? or rinse out brake cleaner w/sumthing?
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Old 05-19-2008, 05:19 PM
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aww come on guys ;p
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Old 05-19-2008, 05:24 PM
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Brake clean evaporates, so you should be ok.
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awesome, thanks a bunch!
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I'd use carb cleaner as the solvent, less prone to eating plastic.
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It's the other way around. Brake cleaner is ok with rubber seals, pad material and plastic reservior
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Default Depending on which variety you get.
Last time I picked up a can in Pep Boys I seem to recall a plastic safe variety, and that one that isn't so safe with plastics. Read the can!
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Are you saying you saw plastics-safe carb cleaner or not plastics safe brake cleaner?
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brake cleaner, two varieties of it
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