Originally posted by Big Jim:

I was noticing in the past few weeks that the ocassionaly grinding into 3rd and the slightly sloppy 3rd gear shift has completely disappeard gradually since putting in Ford Honey with XL3.

This is hardly scientific, but an observation of my car only. I have about 40,000 miles on the fluid now, and it was still acting up a litte at 30,000 miles. I have some ATF+4 that I intended to use when this fluid hits 60,000 miles, but now I'm thinking I'll probably return to Ford Honey, but next time I'll use XL7 (it wasn't available when I last changed fluid).

The car has 210,000 miles with the original clutch and the trans has never been out of the car.



Bah! Why would you run an ATF fluid in a car's tranny that's designed for it? And you actually have not pulled the trans due to wear?! Amazing.

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