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What type of trans fluid are you guys using in the Borg Warner T5 trans? I had heard that you use Dexron but it just doesn't sound right to me.
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I have been running a T5 trans for over two years with automatic trans fluid in it. When I got it from the trans shop the owner of the shop wrote on the side of my trans "ATF ONLY". The only thing when you have a leak you have a problem!
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Yep, even some of the "newer" ford standard trannies require ATF over gear lube.
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Dextron III. Just look in a shop manual if you aren't sure or ask any parts store...
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The lighter viscosity lubes are most likely to enhance fuel mileage a couple of points. The upper classes of oval track cars use this trick when qualifying through time trials where you have only 2 laps to run and no laps to warm things up. The slightly less drag can mean .1 to .3 seconds off a qualifying lap depending on the size of the track. Trans and axle lubes then get replaced with more usual fluids for the race itself. For a manufacturer to spec ATF in a manual box I'm sure they have engineered the trans to work correctly with it. By the way Don the metric equivilant of Dextron 3 up your way would be Dextron 4.8, eh? 
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Actually, its 4.87 but you were pretty close for a Senior Inliner. Bet you had to use a calculator as well. 
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my tranny builder suggested redline MTL.
I'm going w/ Amsoil manual trans gear lube.
This transmission shop has some 300 trannys in stock and they are flooded w/ business.
the owner is very suscessful and there-fore must be doing something right.
infact I may change everything to synthetic, ODD as that may sound for me to say,
but bob dylan says . . . ''them times they are a chang'in''
Gooday
Caroline & Jim
& Lucinda our 3104
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small wheel moves by fire and rod,
big wheel moves by the grace of god,
every time that wheel turns round,
bound to cover just a little more ground.
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"NOW YOU TALKING" Jim... After loosing 3 ring/pinion in my old motorhome I put Amsoil in my last one 70k ago and its still going..SCRAP
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ol Smokey said "one test is worth a thousand expert opinions."
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Originally posted by gearhead:
Dextron III. Just look in a shop manual if you aren't sure or ask any parts store... What's the difference between Dextron II and Dextron III? 'Cause I was reading in a T-5 manuel and it said to use Dextron II. I was at Kragen Auto the other day and all they had is Dextron III. I'm assuming that Dextron III is just as good or better?
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There is a reason that the T5 needs ATF, the syncro cones have a friction lining material just like an automatic. If you use anything else but ATF you risk having to do a rebuild. My buddy found this out the hard way..
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Actually I just wanted to know what the diff is between Dextron II and Dextron III. I already know that it's ATF.
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Dextron III is just better Dexron II. The newer ATF's are the reason why automatics go for >150000 miles without a rebuild.
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Okay, thanks. That's what I'll be using. Expecially since that's all they carry.
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