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The facts: GM Synchromesh v. Red Line
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Just to add to the confusion:
I spoke with a Tremac rep at BG last week. I complained of hard shifting. I have been using Redline D-4 since shortly after I purchased the car. He said that the D-4 reacts with the fibres in the the blocking rings and causes a slight swelling and may be the reason for the hard shifting. His recommendation was to drop the D-4, run Dexron through it for a few hundred miles to flush it out and then switch to GM Syncromesh. The GM Syncromesh doesn't have any effect on the blocking rings.
I may give it a try. I have nothing to loose. Don't think it can get much worse.
Dana
I spoke with a Tremac rep at BG last week. I complained of hard shifting. I have been using Redline D-4 since shortly after I purchased the car. He said that the D-4 reacts with the fibres in the the blocking rings and causes a slight swelling and may be the reason for the hard shifting. His recommendation was to drop the D-4, run Dexron through it for a few hundred miles to flush it out and then switch to GM Syncromesh. The GM Syncromesh doesn't have any effect on the blocking rings.
I may give it a try. I have nothing to loose. Don't think it can get much worse.
Dana
Did he say there was a differance in Dextron?
I switched to GM Synchromesh a while back and it has improved shifting of the tranny quite abit that along with a UPR Quadrant and Firewall Adj. When I first tried to powershift the car I was like WTF and now its like butter, synchromesh is a damn good place to start if you want a smooth shifting T56.
cobra'03 is too hardcore for me.....he's half the reason i joined this board...i get the facts straight and good
Where is everyone ordering the GM Synchromesh from?
I just go to this place that has a blue bow-tie sign that has some French guy's name - Chevalier or Cavalier or Chevrolet or something...
Me, hard core? I just have a small toerance for baloney.
How y'all been? My house got Isabeled - tree through roof!
Me, hard core? I just have a small toerance for baloney.
How y'all been? My house got Isabeled - tree through roof!
No, the rep didn't comment specificly on the Dexron. He just told me to use it to flush the D-4 out for a few hundred miles.
Maybe it has a detergent or something in it? I don't know. Apparently it is not the same as the D-4 as far as its effect on the rings goes, and so the recommendation.
Dana
That is interesting, since the "D" in D4ATF stands for Dexron, in this case the stiffer D4 spec that was proposed but never adopted cause it was too costly to implement. So the Tremec guy is saying Dexron (or Mercon) are improper fluids and that Ford's recommendation is incorrect?
If that is the case, Ford is going to be doing a lot of tranny work.
Honda also makes an excellent tranny fluid similar to GM-S, called MTF (Manual Transmission Fluid). I drove a Honda S2000 and it sure shifts saweet!
No, the Tremac rep didn't comment on the Dexron one way or the other.
What I posted is exactly what he told me.
Dana
What I posted is exactly what he told me.
Dana
Dont you think its strange that i changed my fluid and noticed right off that the shifting seem to have a little bit of a mechanical click of the syncros with the Castrol Mercon III Should I go buy ford brand. It sure should be the same but maybe Castrol has somthing that soaks in.
MY car is going into storage so i should fig out what to throw back in I suppose
MY car is going into storage so i should fig out what to throw back in I suppose
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