What DOT 5.1 fluid? - Sram Level TL brakes

[Mongoose!]

I want to install a new Sram Level TL rear brake system on my bike - (calliper hose and lever all brand new -never had any fluid)

What fluid do I use?

Can I just go to Midas and buy any Dot 5.1 brake fluid? Does brand matters? Some labels state something about silicon…?

Or should I look for a cycling specific fluid?

Already have two screw in injections / nozzles gadgets as required for bleeding and….. Youtube.  
 

Would really like to try it myself.

[BikeisLife]

Any dot 5.1 or dot 4 will work. 

 

[DieselnDust]

Go to Midas and buy the smallest pack size available of any dot5.1 brake fluid

[Schnavel]

Go to Midas and buy the smallest pack size available of any dot5.1 brake fluid

 

This!

 

As mentioned, try buy the smallest amount possible - you need very little and the fluid doesn't keep particularly well.

[DieselnDust]

Yes use what you need and dispose of the remainder at the used oil depository at said Midas.

Dot brake fluids absorb water from the atmosphere and this reduces its boiling point

[V12man]

Castrol SRF..

[Mongoose!]

Thanks for all the inputs.

[Christofison]

I want to install a new Sram Level TL rear brake system on my bike - (calliper hose and lever all brand new -never had any fluid)

 

What fluid do I use?

 

Can I just go to Midas and buy any Dot 5.1 brake fluid? Does brand matters? Some labels state something about silicon…?

 

Or should I look for a cycling specific fluid?

 

Already have two screw in injections / nozzles gadgets as required for bleeding and….. Youtube.  

 

Would really like to try it myself.

But do you have the "Bleeding Edge" adapter for the caliper end? Or are those old stock "pre-2017" Levels?

[droo]

OP - Midas won't have 5.1, you'll need to go to a motorbike shop.

 

But as mentioned before, 5.1 is 5.1, you don't need the SRAM stuff.

[Mongoose!]

But do you have the "Bleeding Edge" adapter for the caliper end? Or are those old stock "pre-2017" Levels?

 

My lever looks like this?

 

[Mongoose!]

will this kit work?

 

 

 

[Quagga]

My lever looks like this?

 

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To know if it is bleeding edge you need to look at the caliper, the levers are the same

[Quagga]

will this kit work?

 

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Not if you have the caliper wich needs bleeding edge

[Mongoose!]

thx

How should the calliper look?

[Quagga]

If your caliper is the bleeding edge type you will have the one on the left

 

 

and here are the tools, if you have the caliper on the left you need the tool in the middle

 

[Mongoose!]

mine looks like this