Brake fluid reservoir

[Admin Jaap]

Just a question that came up: Why is the brake fluid reservoir bigger than the clutch fluid reservoir? Theoretically there is no need for a reservoir at all?

Maybe someone can shed some light on this?

[HaydnR]

Just a question that came up: Why is the brake fluid reservoir bigger than the clutch fluid reservoir? Theoretically there is no need for a reservoir at all?

Maybe someone can shed some light on this?

 

 

If you didnt have a reservoir, you would have no brakes / clutch as the item wore down, as for the size I suppose the capacity of the cylinders is far greater in the brakes especially as multiplied by 4.

[docc]

Front brake: multiplied by eight pistons. And the capacity of the reservoir must accommodate the wear of the pads causing the fluid level to drop.

[luhbo]

... Theoretically there is no need for a reservoir at all? ....

 

A closed system could work just as long as the clutch would see exactly one temperature only. Besides that also the clutch is wearing, not only the brakes.

 

Hubert