Brake cylinder sleeving

There has been quite a discussion on SS versus brass for sleeving. If you want to pursue this, suggest you contact White Post directly. I am very happy with the brass sleeved cylinders. Perhaps the difference is racing (e.g. the autosport site) versus classic car restoration - I have no opinion to offer RE racing applications, nor sadly do I recall the gist of the pro/con arguements - suffice it to say that at the time (a decade ago?) I was convinced that for my purposes brass was the proper solution.

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Moisture comes in primarily through the flexible hoses and the vent on the top of the master cylinder. The best solution is not DOT 5 Silicone which just masks the problem, allowing water droplet pooling in the calipers, compressibility and ultimately causing more problems that it claims to solve. The best solution is that adopted on some modern vehicles especially from those manufacturers not obsessed with zero maintenance for 100,000 miles and all the other crap - moisture testing in the master cylinder reservoir at every service and/or regular fluid changes.

Changing the fluid every year and using DOT 4 will suffice for the majority of applications. Carried out with a pressure bleeder it takes half an hour at most, I know some people that have spent many more hours than that on attempting to solve the problems created by the use of the "superior" silicone fluid.