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03-01-2013, 11:55 AM
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03-01-2013, 11:55 AM
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I'm not gonna spend all day arguing this point. The synchronizers in this transmission ARE DESIGNED TO WORK WITH ATF. All the blocker rings are are small, conical shaped rings with a friction pad. When you're choosing a gear, the synchro slows the gear down to the speed of the other gears, and allows the gears to mesh properly without destroying the teeth of the gears.
When you increase or decrease fluid thickness and viscosity, it's forcing the rings to work out of their normal operating range, causing excessive wear on the pads, which will in turn, lead to worn out synchros. As Bowtie70SS (which, btw, isn't a hobbyist like ourselves, he's been doing this **** for as long as most of us have been alive. He's rebuilt more transmissions than we've seen), has said, the engineers at Tremec didn't just simply overlook using something other than ATF.
We're not garage chemists, and to be quite honest, I'd fill a T56 with 4 quarts of gear oil before I mixed gear oil in with ATF.
As a matter of fact, just to prove increased lubrication isn't always good in our cars, I just went and bought a bunch of wheel bearing grease, and will be filling my transmission up with as much as it will hold.
When you increase or decrease fluid thickness and viscosity, it's forcing the rings to work out of their normal operating range, causing excessive wear on the pads, which will in turn, lead to worn out synchros. As Bowtie70SS (which, btw, isn't a hobbyist like ourselves, he's been doing this **** for as long as most of us have been alive. He's rebuilt more transmissions than we've seen), has said, the engineers at Tremec didn't just simply overlook using something other than ATF.
We're not garage chemists, and to be quite honest, I'd fill a T56 with 4 quarts of gear oil before I mixed gear oil in with ATF.
As a matter of fact, just to prove increased lubrication isn't always good in our cars, I just went and bought a bunch of wheel bearing grease, and will be filling my transmission up with as much as it will hold.
03-01-2013, 11:57 AM
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03-01-2013, 05:01 PM
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I'm not gonna spend all day arguing this point. The synchronizers in this transmission ARE DESIGNED TO WORK WITH ATF. All the blocker rings are are small, conical shaped rings with a friction pad. When you're choosing a gear, the synchro slows the gear down to the speed of the other gears, and allows the gears to mesh properly without destroying the teeth of the gears.
When you increase or decrease fluid thickness and viscosity, it's forcing the rings to work out of their normal operating range, causing excessive wear on the pads, which will in turn, lead to worn out synchros. As Bowtie70SS (which, btw, isn't a hobbyist like ourselves, he's been doing this **** for as long as most of us have been alive. He's rebuilt more transmissions than we've seen), has said, the engineers at Tremec didn't just simply overlook using something other than ATF.
We're not garage chemists, and to be quite honest, I'd fill a T56 with 4 quarts of gear oil before I mixed gear oil in with ATF.
As a matter of fact, just to prove increased lubrication isn't always good in our cars, I just went and bought a bunch of wheel bearing grease, and will be filling my transmission up with as much as it will hold.
When you increase or decrease fluid thickness and viscosity, it's forcing the rings to work out of their normal operating range, causing excessive wear on the pads, which will in turn, lead to worn out synchros. As Bowtie70SS (which, btw, isn't a hobbyist like ourselves, he's been doing this **** for as long as most of us have been alive. He's rebuilt more transmissions than we've seen), has said, the engineers at Tremec didn't just simply overlook using something other than ATF.
We're not garage chemists, and to be quite honest, I'd fill a T56 with 4 quarts of gear oil before I mixed gear oil in with ATF.
As a matter of fact, just to prove increased lubrication isn't always good in our cars, I just went and bought a bunch of wheel bearing grease, and will be filling my transmission up with as much as it will hold.
Just my $0.02.
You might need to use a grease gun to fill the trans to capacity. Just tryin to help....
