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I was out for a ride and about 10 miles from home.
I started having a problem shifting. Luckily I pulled into a service station that sold brake fluid. But only Dot 3. I only needed about to refill the resevoir 1/2 of the way to top it off to get it to shift ok again. My question is should I drain the system and refill with Dot 4 or is Dot 3 ok to use? Thanks Gene
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#1
02-20-2009, 08:16 PM,
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dot 3 and dot 4 are compatible, dot 4 can handle higher temperatures, in a dot 3 system you can use 3 or 4, but if it requires dot 4, thats all you can use. dot 3 boiling point is 369 degrees where dot 4 is 446 degrees. This is the best of my knowledge
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02-20-2009, 08:24 PM,
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thanks for the reply! It says to use only Dot 4 on
the resevoir cover but in an emergency situation all I could buy was Dot 3. So I guess to play it safe I'll replace the fluid and bleed the system.
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#3
02-20-2009, 08:59 PM,
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Kinda reading between the lines here, but how did the resevoir get that low on fluid.?? Is there a leak somewhere (possibly the slave cylinder).???
It couldn't hurt to charge the fluid making it 100% DOT 4... While your changing the clutch fluid, you might as well repalce the brake fluid as well... These fluids should be changed every couple years anyways...
Ed Zogg
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02-21-2009, 08:10 AM,
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Thanks Ed,
Yeh, it set in the garage for the past six months while I was healing from a ventral hernia surgery. I finally got brave and took a short ride to get the emissions done. That is when I found out the clutch resevoir was low and probably the brake level is also. That will be my project this week! Gene
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02-23-2009, 08:02 PM,
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