Never seen the stuff. Castrol GT is 8 bucks a qt. retail. IF you can find it.
the ate or pentosin DOT 4 stuff is like 11 or 12 bucks a liter retail.
y'know, like the stuff in the blue can. clearly marked dot 4
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> wrote:
It is. Almost everything you find on the shelves at just about any auto
supply these days is the 3/4 stuff, or it's something unique for racing, or
something like that.
I have used it and am now wondering if I need to clear my stuff out. I
wonder how much the MB branded stuff is?
Dan
On Dec 25, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Gary Hurst wrote:
> i don't really know what dot 3/4 means. generally i just buy dot 4
stuff.
> i don't think it's hard to find
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Scott Ritchey <ritche...@nc.rr.com>
wrote:
>
>> I'd like to explore the knowledge/experience on brake fluid. A few
months
>> back I flushed/bled my 82 300SD using the DOT3/4 stuff (Valvoline, I
think)
>> nfrom FLAPS. This job was a couple years overdue and the car gets
little
>> use. A couple months later a front brake caliper stuck, giving me a hot
>> wheel. I've since replaced the calipers, hoses, pads, and wheel bearing
>> seals (plus repack). By the way, the green grease had been in there
for
>> over 10 years with no sign of drying out, unlike the old factory grease.
>> The stuck caliper was a Bendix reman that was probably 10 years old. I
had
>> spare disks but the wear on the old disks was minimal so I kept the old
>> disks. Lack of use could be the main cause of the stuck caliper.
>>
>>
>>
>> Question: What do we know about this DOT 3/4 stuff? I previously used
>> DOT4
>> stuff that came in a gold plastic bottle (Valvoline, I think) but I
don't
>> see that on the shelves these days.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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