I want to upgrade my brake fluid for an upcoming (late July) road coarse event. Are there any wierd tricks to flushing all of the existing fluid and bleeding the system? I heard some cars with ABS (not necessarily the Mustangs) need to "depressurize" the system with a series of brake pedal compressions and/or possibly need special tools. Are there any brake fluid pressure accumulators to deal with and bleed seperately on the 06 Mustang GTs?

 

Here you go, this should help.

 

The hardest part if you are changing the type of brake fluid, is getting the clutch line clear.
There is no bleeder valve. I believe to totally clear it you must remove the slave cylinder which is inside the tranny. You can probably get most of it flushed by disconnecting the line and sucking it out with vacuum. Have fun.

 

I noticed when changing out my fluid this past saturday that you cant get a sucker in the master cyl. ford put something to block you from sticking anything into the master and sucking anything more than 20% of the fluid out.

We have a brake flush machine at the shop, so was not a major deal, but still peeved me off at the design.

I used the flush machine, then gravity bleed, then bleed each one out with someone pushing on the pedal as the bleeder was opened, yatta yatta yatta.

No pumping of the pedal was needed, Im not sure if this is because of the machine or not.

beat the hell out of her on the 3.56 mile 21 turn road course 2 days later and she has been perfect.

Although my polished aluminum rims were black when I was done with track day, lol.

 

I'm looking into bleeding my system soon and I read the "Brake_System_Bleeding.pdf" Alex put on the site. Why do you need the "Worldwide Diagnostic System" as stated:




Do we really need this tool ???

 

You should only need it if you replace the HCU or the master cylinder. Just for bleeding you don't need to recalibrate.
Why are you bleeding?

 

I have a 3 day road course Advanced Driving School at Le Circuit Mont-Tremblant (near Montreal: http://www.lecircuit.com/en/track.htm) in early July. This beeing my third Mustang and that brake endurance has not improved with the '05, I will change the braking fluid to some high boiling point fluid (Motul 600) and some high-performance brake pads (GranSport GS3, similar to Hawk Blue racing pads). I would not last the first day with these OEM pads and fluid. I will also remove the protective plates on the disks to help the cooling. I'm quite disappointed with the '05 brakes; the disks are larger but the pads do not cover more surface

What do you mean by that ? What does the hydraulic clutch have to do with replacing the brake fluid ?

 

Thanks for all of the info and tips!

I have a 2 day road coarse driving school through Mustang Club of Central Iowa at Mid Amarica Motorplex the weekend of July 22nd. I need the school to qualify for a racing license for the SATCAR road racing series.

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