Originally posted by DemonSVT:
Originally posted by todras:
I don't see anyone questioning the virtues of Ford Honey or Mobil 1. Have they ever? Not to my knowledge. Present away if I'm wrong.


I've stated for years that ATF is a piss poor fluid for protecting a manual transmission. It has no sheer viscosity strength (i.e. excessive wear) and is broken down very quickly. It was a "compromise" made by Ford so they did not have people complaining about shifting quality. A compromise that hurts the transmission in the long run. Running ATF when there are better more protecting fluids is definitely not the best idea. PERIOD.

If you want to use this flock of sheep's reasoning. How many failures does the MTX-75 have under it's belt with ATF in it? About 100 million percent more then all the other fluids combined. Gee I guess I did not need to give any empirical proof it's truly bad with a record like that.




Ford changed the lube spec to honey from ATF and FWIW the issue was not gear wear(why they changed) because gear wear was never an issue with ATF as the gear are a helical cut
which work fine with ATF lube(open up an auto, the gear trains are helical!). The only component in question is the stoc open diff straight cut gears......maybe thats why they went to honey....but again the 'current official Ford spec' is honey not ATF and 'honey' is NOT MTL.

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