Who Needs Brake Paste?
 

Do you really need brake paste when rebuilding a caliper or doing other work?

Brake fluid seems to work ok. Does brake paste add anything? Does it make things safer? Or easier? Or what?

Are you talking about caliper slide grease?

For you, I recommend wheel bearing grease there.

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Brake fluid does not mix with anything else including the paste. Brake fluid also cannot be used where the paste is used. Please do not work on your own brakes and take it to a shop.

Brake paste is probably silicone grease. Petroleum greases like wheel bearing grease can cause some types of caliper seals to swell and stick or seize and are not recommended for brakes
. Brake fluid is too fluid to stay put like a grease or paste would but does work for many assembly tasks.

I use nasal queso

Better check the blinker fluid while working on the brakes.

are the muffler bearing alined ?

Put man chowder in there!

Mastiff spooge. I have plenty of it.

Bull?

brake fluid is said to cause corrosion if it gets past the seals (as it is hygroscopic) - seems a bit far fetched to me as it would (should) just get washed off by rain, puddles (which also get the caliper wet)

brake fluid also will not "stay there" like brake paste

I do know that some Volkswagen mechanics (the bane of 356s) will skip brake paste and just use brake fluid... I guess it is no big deal on a VW as the car will break down anyway...

regular grease will drip if used b/c of the high temperatures the caliper reaches

where is Dr. Brakeburg?

I need brake paste.

Brake paste will keep the cratch from going slap slap slap, like that.

hahahaha

ROFL

I thought that brake paste was the result of going slap, slap, slap on that cratch.

There's a Miley Cyrus joke in there somewhere.

Someone needs to stop her from slap slap slapping that cratch. Maybe brake paste will work.

Be real caaarefull because if you apply to much brake paste to the cratch it will go flop, flop, flop.

will it ever run again?

Who knows!!

Herculiner? Just remember to wash your hands when you are done.