How much fluid for a FULL brake and clutch bleed?
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why would you need to do a complete bleed on a car less than 2 years old?
Dot 4
you going deep while road racing?
curious on how much difference vs cost/time it will actually make.
curious on how much difference vs cost/time it will actually make.
Did a full amsoil swap with my car and it didn't even take 2 bottles. Forget the size of the bottles. If you want a real 100% flush you have to take off the brake lines from the calipers to drain the calipers out too. And it's easier to just unhook the clutch line and drain it that way. Haven't felt a difference but to me it's just piece of mind.
You should be good with two small (~pint?) bottles, but I'd keep a 3rd on hand just in case.
If you want to do the ABS, I think you either need to go to the dealer or activate the ABS by braking hard enough and bleeding again.
If you want to do the ABS, I think you either need to go to the dealer or activate the ABS by braking hard enough and bleeding again.
Did you flush your Boss?
Yup. Boss and the GT.
What did you use? Feel any differance? Did you activate the ABS and rebleed?
I would never drain the system completely its a pain in the ass plus its not needed. Just gravity bleed the system starting in the back. Gravity bleeding insures u have zero problems aspecially if your new at it. Also never let the brake reservoir run dry.
I used a qt of napa dot 4 and just did the ghey turkey baster method until the fluid looked clean. stock fluid at ~5k miles was nasty looking.
I just took my car to the dealer to have it pressure bled.....we did the manual gravity bleed after the StopTech install and the pedal felt funny. It did not engage the pads/rotors until about 50% then it grabbed hard. I did a few ABS stops and re bled teh brakes and it got a tad bit better but still not right.
SO, off to the dealer it went for the pressure bleeding.
Fluid: Motorcraft Dot3 is actually better than others for dry boiling point (500*)
however the wet boiling point is pretty low (284*)
Most people go with DOT4 which ranges from 500*-588* dry and 311*-388* wet.
Ford can get away with having a lower wet boiling point cause they do the pressure bleeding to ensure there is no air in the lines which causes moisture....more moisture the higher you will need the wet boiling point!
Another cause for moisture in the system is by leaving the master cyl cap off for any amount of time and also leaving the fluid bottle open. Remember to ALWAYS throw out any access fluid after you fill your system. Never use the left over after any period of time.
SO, off to the dealer it went for the pressure bleeding.
Fluid: Motorcraft Dot3 is actually better than others for dry boiling point (500*)
however the wet boiling point is pretty low (284*)
Most people go with DOT4 which ranges from 500*-588* dry and 311*-388* wet.
Ford can get away with having a lower wet boiling point cause they do the pressure bleeding to ensure there is no air in the lines which causes moisture....more moisture the higher you will need the wet boiling point!
Another cause for moisture in the system is by leaving the master cyl cap off for any amount of time and also leaving the fluid bottle open. Remember to ALWAYS throw out any access fluid after you fill your system. Never use the left over after any period of time.
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Never heard of throwing the left over away. I currently have left over dot4 in my brakes now, after doing the clutch line and dot4 change. Is it worth buying a few pints and gravity bleeding it out?
one of the brake fluid properties is to pull away and trap moisture... if you have a bottle that was opened previoulsy there was moisture introduced to the fluid from the air... soooooo yeah, dont use fluid that you had laying around for a while.
How long did it take them and how much did they charge you? Did they have to activate the ABS? How do the brakes feel?
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They charged me too much...hour worth of labor!
The brakes feel better.
The brakes feel better.
Better than stock?
Definitely stop quicker!!! They really bite (in a good way)
Stang life. That was the old ford fluid... the new stuff isn't rated that high anymore. They went cheap.
This is from teh current fordparts site:
Motorcraft® Brake & Engine Performance Fluid & Cleaners
and this is the info from LMR..
Motorcraft Two Bottles High Performance Brake Fluid Two Bottles PM1C-2 at LRS - Free Shipping!
Is there a site that has the "New" fluid/info?
Motorcraft® Brake & Engine Performance Fluid & Cleaners
and this is the info from LMR..
Motorcraft Two Bottles High Performance Brake Fluid Two Bottles PM1C-2 at LRS - Free Shipping!
Is there a site that has the "New" fluid/info?
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