1993 Oldsmobile 88 Owner's Manual - Page 243

Service & Appearance Care Brake Master Cylinder (CONX) DOT-5 silicone brake fluid can Replacing Brake System Parts A If you have too much brake fluid, it can spill on the engine. The fluid will burn if the engine is hot enough. You or others could beburned, and your engine could be damaged. Add brake fluid only when work is done on thebrake hydraulic system. then your brake fluid falls to a low :vel, your brake warning light will ome on. A continuous chime will mnd if you try to drive with this mnhg light on. S e e the Index under bake System Warning Light. Vhat t Add: o h e n you do need brake fluid, use only bOT-3 brake fluid-such as Delco (GM P r No. 1052535). at upreme ke new brake fluid from a sealed ontainer only. l l @ The braking system on a modern vehicle is complex. Its many parts have to be of top quality and work well together if the vehicle is to have really good braking. Vehicles we design and test have topquality GM brake parts in them, as your Oldsmobile does whenit is new. When you replace partsof your braking system-for example, when your brake linings wear down and you have to have new ones put in-be sure you get new genuine GM replacement parts. If you don't, your brakes may no longer work properly. For example,if someone puts are in brake linings that wrong for your vehicle, the balance between your front and rear brakes can change, for the worse. The braking performance you've in come to expect can change many other ways if someone putsin the wrong replacement brake parts. 242