Originally Posted by Chone
I'm not sure what rubbing/isopropyl alcohol is but from the looks of it it is not like regular alcohol (you know the one you put up to clean and desinfectate wounds and such) sorry if this sound stupid but english is not my main language so I'm not familiar with the terms used.
Well, can anyone enlight me on the subject?
You may use whatever alcohol you like. You can use Everclear if you please. None of it will harm your braking system. But none of it (not even denatured (campstove oil)) will do a very good job at getting any oils off the pads.
If your system is contaminated, you have two choices. The easiest choice is EBC non-chlorinated brake cleaner. Just make sure you treat the pads and rotors without hitting any rubber seals. The other choice is the bake the breaking surfaces. Oh yeah ... choice three is to get new brake pads. But you still have to de-contaminate the rotors otherwise you'll just oil up your new pads.