

| Subject: | Re: Tranny oil - success |
| From: | Matthew Pollard |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:44:42 -0700 |
wow! Wait. Stop! You probably put in too much oil! Really. The max oil is NOT when it flows out but like 1/2" below the plug hole (check that figure!) I put in too much once and had to replace the tranny seals 6 months later! Matthew Pollard "Racing with the wind and flirting with death Dept. Of Chemistry So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath" University of Idaho www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356 On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Blake Thornton wrote: > Well, I got around to putting in new transmission oil yesterday. I > drained the old (brownish in color) and cleaned off my drain plug (it had > accumulated quite a collection of metal fragments). > > I then opened the bottles of redline MT90 and saw pink. I was immediately > worried but then realized that redline is synthetic and not dino oil. So > I dumped it into my tranny (ok, I actually pumped it in with a fluid pump > and it worked great). I used about 4 quarts in the tranny and about 1/5 > of a quart on the ground (oops!). > > I then drove around after buttoning everything back up. My van shifted so > wonderfully! I couldn't believe I was driving the same van. I wish I had > done this earlier. > > Just thought I'd post my success. > > blake > 84 westy > SLC UT >
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