Disc brake oil - cheaper alternative

[Dexter-morgan]

What other oil can I use instead of buying the very expensive kits at the LBS?

[MrJacques]

Castrol LHM+ at Midas - if it's a mineral oil you're looking for.

 

http://www.peterverdone.com/archive/bikemineraloil.htm

Edited August 15, 2013 by Jacquers

[Flowta]

What other oil can I use instead of buying the very expensive kits at the LBS?

 

Depends on what brakes you're talking about.

[MrJacques]

Then get a syringe, and some silicone hose (I got some from a hobby shop, it's the type they use for airplane fuel hose) and you should be sorted.

[Pieter1]

I used Autohouse dot 5.1. 60 jimmies.

[NINER_boy]

Mineral / dot4 you should be able to get from a motor spares type shop.

 

MUCH cheaper

[Pieter1]

Mineral / dot4 you should be able to get from a motor spares type shop.

 

MUCH cheaper

Dot 4 you can get at engen for 40 bucks.

[Dexter-morgan]

Thanks for the info, I'd rather not say what I just paid for a Shimano kit.

[carbon29er]

Thanks for the info, I'd rather not say what I just paid for a Shimano kit.

We all know they didn't bother with the KY Gel

[Flowta]

We all know they didn't bother with the KY Gel

 

Can you use that in Brake hoses? Well you learn something every day.

[Stretch]

Thanks for the info, I'd rather not say what I just paid for a Shimano kit.

 

as far as i know you cant use dot 4 for shimano brakes...so you dont have to feel too bad

[Flowta]

as far as i know you cant use dot 4 for shimano brakes...so you dont have to feel too bad

 

Correct, you can't use dot 4 for Shimano. Shimano uses mineral oil, Jacquers link and suggestion will work

[G00SE]

Be careful about using just any oil in your shimano brakes. Shimano oil is a very light wieght (5wt I think) so putting a 40 wt motor oil in will be a bit disastrous.

[Stretch]

Correct, you can't use dot 4 for Shimano. Shimano uses mineral oil, Jacquers link and suggestion will work

 

in that case he can still feel like he has been rodgered

[Johan Bornman]

as far as i know you cant use dot 4 for shimano brakes...so you dont have to feel too bad

 

Poor advice.

[Johan Bornman]

DOT Fluid is not oil and oil is not DOT fluid.

 

Don't get the two confused. The OP said oil. Further, we know he's talking oil 'cause he was complaining about the price. DOT fluid is dirt cheap - about R20 for 500ml. Mineral oil is ten times that.

Edited August 15, 2013 by Johan Bornman