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coolant type

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by TACOGUY23, Mar 26, 2019.

  1. Jul 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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    jproffer

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    You can't really "change" your brake fluid. If you did drain it to change it, you'd have more problems than you want.....

    However, you can bleed your brakes until it looks like new fluid on the tire end of the line. Just make sure to keep the reservoir full and don't let air get into the system (that's the "more problems than you want").

    It's not the end of the world if you do, but then ya gotta start all over at the back right, and you just wasted all the fluid you just bled out to find "new looking" fluid.
     
  2. Jul 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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    eherlihy

    eherlihy 2009 Access Cab TRD Off Road

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    Then, the only way to address your issue would be to change ALL of the coolant, which I did at 100k and now do every 5 years or 50k miles.
     
  3. Jul 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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    What is the actual determination? Pink vs red vs compatible vs change time?
    Seems easier to just buy the spec'd schitt and run with that is called for in manual....
     
  4. Jul 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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    eherlihy

    eherlihy 2009 Access Cab TRD Off Road

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    The manual calls for SLLC (pink). The pix above look like LLC (red) which is sold as a concentrate.
     

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