Bad Notch

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Dot 3, Dot 4, or Dot 5 ?

I been trying to call them but the line is busy and I want to get this thing bench bled asap.


Thanks

99ssleeper

iTrader: (98)

use whatever the owners manual calls for. i believe its dot 3. i used dot 4 in my stock system. you should have no problem either way.

Demonicbird00

iTrader: (17)

installed the tick today along w/ a new clutch reservoir (wilwood) and i put gm brake fluid in

-brandon

madmike9396

iTrader: (29)

did u have the sticky pedal ?

Redneck Z

iTrader: (3)

Dot 3

NSSANE02

iTrader: (14)

3 or 4, both will work.

Black02SLPSS

iTrader: (5)

Either of those will work. Or if you can find some DOT 5.1 that will work too. Just dont put DOT 5 in.

NSSANE02

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Don't you have to flush it out real good if you switch to 5.1 so they don't mix? I thought I remember reading something about that.

Bad Notch

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Why not dot 5 ? I didnt have any pedal issues.. im just upgrading the whole system.

NSSANE02

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It has something in it that's bad for the hyd. system, I forgot what it was though. That, and there's no reason for it... go with DOT 4 and be done.

FirstLSx

iTrader: (8)

DOT 5 is not compatible with DOT 3/4

YOOFORMULA

iTrader: (6)

I was told that anything other than dot 3 would deteriorate the seals in the master. I had to rebuild mine twice after the rubber seals inside tore apart due to the fluid.

Viper

iTrader: (6)

"I had to rebuild mine twice after the rubber seals inside tore apart due to the fluid."

Tick, stock or McLeod?

NSSANE02

iTrader: (14)

DOT 4 will be fine. I've been running it for over a year.

YOOFORMULA

iTrader: (6)

mcleod master. the rubber seals were gummy and fell apart inside the cylinder but in hind sight, it might have been the synthetic brake fluid I used at one point.

Black02SLPSS

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Its not a problem as them not being able to be mixed with each other, but you would want to flush the system very good so that your not cross contaminating the new fluid with the old as the 5.1 will have a higher resistance to boiling vs the 3 and 4.

And DOT 5 is a silicon based brake fluid where as DOT 3,4 and 5.1 is a Polyglycol ether based fluid. So thats why if you put a silicon based fluid in a system designed for the polyglycol ether based fluids you will have a premature failure of the seals and what not.