[Jerry Clayton]

Water / condensaion--------- mixed with brake fluid lowers the boiling temp of the fluid-so some that is good for say 500 degrees is lowered to 350*? of worse----------the military back many decades ago had problems of water in brake fluids and speced the Dot 5 because of the vehicles stored in strateit? places arond the world--------However for performance type vehicles there are some extremely hot areas around the differant portions of the braking/clutch systems-------and Dot 5, which won't mix with water,well, the water boils at 212* and of course your brake/hydraulic clutch system is burnt toast-----------its better to have a milky substance that boils at 500* than something with water in it that boils at 212* when you need to stop------or slow down -------Happened to me in the command vehicle of a very long military convoy on a pretty sharp downhill curve ----------but I haddened had any signs of trouble after submerging the M151 in that stream the day before---------