Upgrade Clutch/Brake fluid

[ViciousJay]

This mod cleans and upgrades the clutch/brake fluid from DOT3 to DOT4 and improves, brake and clutch pedal feel, smoother shifts. Def worth the upgrade.

Here's the steps.

1) Gather up the following, DOT4 Synthetic brake fluid, turkey baster, towels, and a beer for your troubles. like below.

2) Pop the hood and locate the brake reservoir like below, driver side fire wall

3) Put a towel down covering anything with paint to ensure that no spills happen, if ANY BRAKE FLUID HITS YOUR PAINT, WASH IT OFF IMMEDIATELY!!!

4) Begin sucking the fluid out little by little, make sure to hit every crevise of the reservoir

5) After its been sucked out begin filling it up, clean the cap off and tighten the cap back on the reservoir, and get into the car and begin pumping the brake 30 or so times and clutch pedal 15 times to ensure pressure is back

6) repeat step 5 till fluid is clean, below in the milk jug is 17000 mile fluid and then one next to it is 1 days change before changing over to DOT4

7) After doing this a few times its now time to take it for a spin. After starting the car again pump the brakes and clutch 30 or so times to ensure good pressure and let her rip down the street.

8) After returning happy and satisfied continue drinking beer and pat yourself on the back

 

[351inside]

So you gotta keep taking it out after you pump it??? & filling it with a new bottle each time?

Wat do you mean wen you say 1 day before switching over to dot four, did you run some other fluid on it while cleaning it

 

[dro]

So essentially what you are doing is sucking out the old, pump the brake and clutch, keep sucking, then put the new in, pump the clutch and brake, the keep filling til it is full?


BTW, miller light ftl. :lol1:

 

[ViciousJay]

So essentially what you are doing is sucking out the old, pump the brake and clutch, keep sucking, then put the new in, pump the clutch and brake, the keep filling til it is full?


BTW, miller light ftl. :lol1:

No I suck out, refill and then pump.... Then redo everything.... You don't want air in the lines

 

[mcduffer7]

Thanks for the write-up.

 

[H8SUGR]

Great write up. I'll be doing this very soon.

 

[amoosenamedhank]

Why don't you just bleed out the lines? Using a fluid like ATE super blue will make it really easy to tell when the new fluid has made it through the line.

 

[Chuck@Evolution]

Why don't you just bleed out the lines? Using a fluid like ATE super blue will make it really easy to tell when the new fluid has made it through the line.

That is the correct way of flushing out the system. Start at the passenger rear, then drivers rear, then passenger front, then drivers front. That way you are sure you get all the old fluid out of the lines. Only tricky part would be to get all the old fluid out of the clutch system. You get it out of the line, by disconnecting at the slave cylinder, but you will still have some residual in the slave cylinder itself.

 

[4.6+5.0]

How does it do the brakes and clutch? I didn't know the clutch has fluid for it, how does this increase smoothness?