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Thread: Brake fluid -how to tell which kind you have DOT 3 or DOT 5

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11-08-2008, 17:47

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CCATLETT1984

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Originally Posted by Wolf.Dose

If you change from DOT 3, 4 or better to DOT 5 silicone based brake fluid, you have, to avoid desasters, wash your brake system with concentrated alcohol. This means you have to take out all brake parts, strip to the last nut and bolt, wash in alkohol (including all tubes and hoses), regrease with brake grease blue, for ex. ATE, reasemble and reinstall. If you do it not this way, several rubber parts will fail. Then your brake fails.
Wolf

With our vehicles being DOT5 from the military, any changes go the other way around.

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