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Originally Posted by brillo_76
Oh boy.. easy folks.. As per google by 1993 Toyota eliminated asbestos....
"Does Toyota use asbestos?
By 1993, Toyota had all asbestos-free brakes and clutches. Asbestos still showed up in a few specialty gaskets – those were removed in 2005. The American manufacturers aren't quite as forthcoming about asbestos use. And there are still quite a few manufacturers of asbestos brakes and clutches in China and India."
Just so readers know down the road. I not interested into getting into debates or discussions on dust. I just wanted to point out its not in the oem materials anymore.
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Well this thread has served its purpose so I don't mind if it devolves into nitpicking about asbestos. But I'm an evidence freak, and a statement pulled up by Google (which I already posted, btw) that they stopped in 1993 is just not authoritative. I also posted that they were using asbestos in non-friction parts after they had supposedly stopped.
The truth of when they actually stopped using asbestos in OEM clutches (its still used in some aftermarket parts) is hard t pin down. Here's another unauthoritative statement from the web:
Auto Mechanic Asbestos Exposure - The Lanier Law Firm
According to the Federal Register and the EPA, automotive chrysotile asbestos-containing disc and drum brakes were common until 2000...
The EPA banned asbestos products in automotive parts in 1989, but this was overturned in 1991, allowing products to be used in automotive parts again. In 2010, a Freedonia report revealed that California and Washington passed legislation requiring brake pads to have no more than 0.1% asbestos by January 1, 2015.
This was important because from 1996 through 2006, asbestos-containing brake imports had increased 83 percent. (so why not clutches?)
According to the EPA, asbestos-containing clutches were phased out by 2000. Manufacturers had already begun using alternate materials in the 1980s.
Whoa, 2000? That's long after they were supposedly phased out. So the deeper I look, the murkier it gets. Last but not least, even Toyota Corporate wasn't able to give me a definite answer.
