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Strange Pro Brakes front and rear.. What Fluid???

#1 Post by 79 Camaro » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:32 am

I went to autozone to see what brake fluids they had and I know that strange says to use DOT 3 or 4 and do not use the DOT 5 silicone base brake fluid.. But I noticed that some of the brands like Prestone and Valvoline said it was for DOT 3 & 4 Synthetic?? Are all DOT 3 & 4 brake fluids synthetic?
What type and brands do you guys use??

I have always heard that synthetic fluids tend to wanna leak more over the conventional stuff...
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Re: Strange Pro Brakes front and rear.. What Fluid???

#2 Post by John_Heard » Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:45 pm

The synthetic is ok, just don't use the silicone based fluids. For drag racing I don't think it's that big an issue as compared to what a circle track car needs. I've been using Valvoline Synpower, it's a synthetic and has a 500* boiling point. Seems to work fine.

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Re: Strange Pro Brakes front and rear.. What Fluid???

#3 Post by 79 Camaro » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:09 pm

Thanks John for the info!
Is this the stuff that you use? This is what I saw at autozone.
http://www.valvoline.com/pages/products ... roduct=138
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Re: Strange Pro Brakes front and rear.. What Fluid???

#4 Post by John_Heard » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:22 pm

The bottle looks a little different but names the same.

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Re: Strange Pro Brakes front and rear.. What Fluid???

#5 Post by 79 Camaro » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:25 pm

They might have changed the bottle, but all the specs are the same as you use, right?
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Re: Strange Pro Brakes front and rear.. What Fluid???

#6 Post by John_Heard » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:32 pm

Looks like I've got two bottles, the old one says 500* and the new one looks like what you posted and says 480* - either one should do fine far as I know.

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Re: Strange Pro Brakes front and rear.. What Fluid???

#7 Post by 79 Camaro » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:37 pm

Sounds good to me! :thumb:
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Re: Strange Pro Brakes front and rear.. What Fluid???

#8 Post by TubbedTruck67 » Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:33 pm

Adam on my wilwoods I asked them what to use and they said of coarse use their fluid but if i was going to use somebody elses fluid to use the valvoline. I used the valvoline in mine and they did change the bottle, I even got lucky enough to get all the old bottle stuff free from work when they went to the new bottle!

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Re: Strange Pro Brakes front and rear.. What Fluid???

#9 Post by 79 Camaro » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:38 pm

Cool, thanks Sam :thumb: . I went to autozone and got a big bottle of it. Now I just have to tighten everything down and bleed those bad boyz! :attack:
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