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Old Jun 20, 2005 | 10:46 PM
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I've been hearing so many conflicting opinions about what to use. What are the pros and cons on the different types? There's syncromesh, royal purple, synthetics like mobil 1, redline, honda atf, and regular dextron III. What's the best?? I want whats best for my trans.
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Old Jun 21, 2005 | 02:20 PM
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i just put in the honda atf fluid, i'll let you know what i think of it after i drive it a little.

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royal purple here
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Old Jun 22, 2005 | 11:51 AM
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http://theoildrop.server101.com/ubb/...ubb=forum;f=16

It's more than you ever wanted to know about oil/fluid. If you search for t56 there's a lot of posts.
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royal purple here
here also!
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how's the royal purple workin for ya? somewhere i read that syncromesh isn't good for our tranny's...is that true? does anyone know what's the best stuff, or is this all opinion based?
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thats a decent link patman. still can't figure out whats the best though. one guy says one thing, another says something else. hmmmmmmm
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transam0486- Try searching using my username here and at www.ls1.com.

A while back, I was looking into this...I arrived at my own conclusion...I'll let you arrive at your own...

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