Cool thanks man, I am going to do it. I trust you guys...... I'll take some shots and post in here.

 

I picked up some DOT 4 and the guy asked me if I was sure if that's what I wanted......are we sure about this? I can always take it back. I couldn't find any synthetic fluid here in town.

 

Here's a good article....I guess, because I was too lazy to read the whole thing. What's the simple answer?

http://jimsgarage.wordpress.com/2007...t-4-and-dot-5/

 

Brake bleeding made easy. Good little website for those not mechanicly inclined. I'll be investing into one of those vaccum pump bleeders soon. 115k miles on the Ranger and I highly doubt the brake fluid has been flushed once.

 

Easy answer is get the DOT 4 fluid. Drain yours completely.
Its real easy to bleed the system on a bike, like I said in my last post, gravity bleed it, then a couple pressure bleeds it will be good to go.

On the racecars we would dump the fluid every day. Drivers are funny, for some reason they couldn't tolerate brake fade.
Todays cars with ABS recommend you flush the fluid every 30K.

 

Famous last words
The owners manual says DOT 3 or DOT 4

 

Cool, thanks guys.

 

ding ding ding, this is right. use dot 4 just cus the higher temps, but dot 3 is safe to use with dot 4 and vise versa. dot 5 is just a completely diffrent animal and sould never be used with a dot 3 or 4 system.

 

Thanks, worked like a charm!

 

I bought a Mityvac and it is by far the best tool I ever bought. Me and my (one) friend have 9 bikes between us and we're nuts about keeping up with our maintanence. That mityvac is the *****. It makes bleeding the brakes a breeze. We've done KTM's, Kawasaki's, Harley's, Honda's, Suzuki's, and Yamaha's. 2 stokes 4 strokes whatever is up for new fluid next is done in no time. The first time we used it I let some air get sucked into the line and we thought we were screwed(from past experience) but the Mityvac had the the job done in a minute. We were shocked at how good it works.