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Old Apr 25, 2012 | 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Stevolwevol
Torque, I was hoping to hear for you also.
touche

now I have to hear it from 69 too

anyway, I'm cheap (it's pretty obvious in my posts) but for giggles I did a complete tranny flush (not just a drain) in one of my vehicles and used Amsoil synthetic. It killed me to pay that much for fluid when generic was calling out to me but I wanted to give it a go.

At idle, the vehicle actually rolled about 1-2mph faster, no kidding. I never bothered to check mpg because i didn't do a before and after

Now, would fresh regular fluid have been similar, who knows. I had 60k on the clock and it was time for that maintenance item and who remembers what it was like brand new.

i don't have a transmission temp gauge either so can't say if it runs any cooler.
 
Old Apr 25, 2012 | 06:03 PM
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I'll go you one better....threeche!!
 
Old Apr 25, 2012 | 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by torque_is_good
touche

now I have to hear it from 69 too

anyway, I'm cheap (it's pretty obvious in my posts) but for giggles I did a complete tranny flush (not just a drain) in one of my vehicles and used Amsoil synthetic. It killed me to pay that much for fluid when generic was calling out to me but I wanted to give it a go.

At idle, the vehicle actually rolled about 1-2mph faster, no kidding. I never bothered to check mpg because i didn't do a before and after

Now, would fresh regular fluid have been similar, who knows. I had 60k on the clock and it was time for that maintenance item and who remembers what it was like brand new.

i don't have a transmission temp gauge either so can't say if it runs any cooler.
Roll 1-2 faster????? Are you implying that the synthetic, or the flush was a good thing, or a bad thing?
 
Old Apr 25, 2012 | 07:12 PM
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I wouldn't be surprised if t.i.g. puts synthetic in his coffee, to make his 1-2 faster! lmao
 
Old Apr 25, 2012 | 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Camaro 69
I wouldn't be surprised if t.i.g. puts synthetic in his coffee, to make his 1-2 faster! lmao
I remember seeing you in my rear view mirror
 
Old Apr 25, 2012 | 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Stevolwevol
Roll 1-2 faster????? Are you implying that the synthetic, or the flush was a good thing, or a bad thing?
if it was rolling faster at the same rpm then I'd say a good thing.

what I can neither confirm or deny is were the results only because of synthetic or would regular fluid have done the same after the flush.
 
Old Aug 13, 2012 | 06:16 PM
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The synthetic transmission fluid works great in my 83. I switch as soon as it came out on the market. No problems.
 
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