How much brake fluid?

evol911evol911 familEE
in Suspension, Braking & Wheels
I'm replacing my brake fluid(DOT 4) this weekend and installing the 15/16 MC; anyone know how much brake fluid our system holds? Don't want to buy too much or too little.

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  • evol911evol911 familEE
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  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    One bottle of ATE superblue and your golden. I think they usually go for around 15-20 bucks. Youll have some left over though.

    I did my Integra with one bottle of Motul back in the 1900's. I think I still have it too since I switched to superblue. Ill try and remember to check how much is in it when I get home and if noones gave you a solid answer I can let ya know tomorrow. I gots no nets at homey.
  • evol911evol911 familEE
    Was it the regular small bottle that you buy to refill or the bigger size? I could probably just ask the parts guy when I buy it tomorrow. :wink:
  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    It was a 1 pint sized bottle. I had Les Schwabb flush out the old crap and replace with this stuff. There was just a little left in the bottle that I gave them.

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  • 949949 Senior Wagonist
    i flush mine all the time now cause of a leak, fixing it later on.

    anyways..
    i went to walmart and bought a few of the large brake fluid bottles. pretty cheap. when you do it just buy a few bottles and you might want to take the time now to flush it out. just pump it all the way through the lines corner by corner. if you do it, you should run through at least 2 large bottles.

    just keep your reciept and return what you dont use.
  • evol911evol911 familEE
    Thanks 949 but I did it all ready. I just bought to bottles of DOT 5 synthetic and flushed the whole system. I found this awesome vacuum pump, so I ddidn't have to have someone pump pump pump hold my brakes when I bled them. Just put a rubber fitting on the bleeder valve, built up some vacuum with pump and cracked the bleeder and it sucked the brake fluid through into a little container that I could see when it cleared up. Really easy actually.


    Check this out if you are doing your brakes:
    http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=38053
  • 949949 Senior Wagonist
    nice. good to hear.

    how is the dot 5? any different in feel of pressure on the foot?



    i saw those pumps. i was not sure how they worked or if they were easy to use.
  • shenrieshenrie Council Member
    I love Harbor Frieght.

    Snap On make a sweet evacuation kit that can pull fluids out of trannies, help bleed brakes etc. Its air driven, but spendy as hell.

    I didnt notice a difference with just fluids on the brakes, but I know SSB lines make an instant noticable difference. Less spongy right from the getgo.
  • evol911evol911 familEE
    All I notice is the pedal doesn't sink to the floor. Hard to explain but the pedal use to give when I braked hard, it would "engage" then slowly sink closer to the floor.

    I wouldn't be able to tell between the DOT 5 or 4 unless I was really putting the paces to my brakes which would probbaly kill my brakes before my fluid. DOT 5 has a dry boiling point at 500 degrees which will undoubtedly hold my minor brake upgrade I have planned.


    The pump was the easiest thing I have ever used . There is a lining going from canister from the pump then from the canister to the bleeder valve, you just crack the valve and suck out all the bad fluid and air and everything. Took me no time at all. It's weird because the manual for the pump said do the closest brake to the M/C but I always thought you do the farthest away. I justr bled the brakes a couple extra times and it worked out with no problems.
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