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Old 07-10-2008, 05:12 PM
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I am going to change out my brakes to the Satisfied GS6 pads and I want to change out the fluid also to something like Motul with a high boiling point and not very hygroscopic. How many bottles, ounces, whatever do I need to change out the fluid? One bottle of Motul is a pint, Ford Racing fluid is 12.oz, and I don't know the brake system capacity of the Stang. I was thinking two bottles would get it done for sure, but my girlfriend is buying all of it for my birthday so I don't want her to buy two when I only need one.

Also, I just got my car back with the new radiator, the thing is huge/thick as heck compared to the original. I haven't drivien it yet but it looks promising. I will upload some pictures of it later. After I drive it around and see if I can notice any difference.
 
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Old 07-11-2008, 06:55 AM
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Last time I changed my brake fluid I bought a 12oz and a 32 oz bottles. When I was done I had about one third of the 32oz bottle left over.
 
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Old 07-11-2008, 07:20 AM
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If you ask me you dont need motul but its your choice. Even at local parts stores they have DOT4 fluid you can buy. I can tell you to do the whole system it took a whole bottle of the largest size that my parts store had. It was 22oz. container to get the whole car bleed and the master bleed to on my car. I used the Valvoline DOT4 in mine.
 
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Old 07-11-2008, 07:53 AM
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Vavoline DOT4 fluid is pretty good. I think it has something like 500°+ boiling point. Regular Motorcraft DOT3 fluid is great too but the wet boiling point is lower, I think while the dry is up there.
 
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Old 07-11-2008, 02:34 PM
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Yea, one large bottle should be enough. Any brand name Dot 4 is going to be fine. I used castrol.
 
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Old 07-11-2008, 07:42 PM
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I was just wanting something like Motul, anything with a decent dry/wet temp. I know I will never push my stock brakes to really need a super high temp. fluid. Ok now I have an idea of how much I need, thanks.
 
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