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dkins419

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The other day i got some Mobil 1 Synthetic ATF Dexron/Mercon and i didnt notice that it said automatic transmission fluid til i got home. Can i use it in a T5?
 

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anyone?
 

281pony

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yes that is the right fluid. lots of people run that with good results.
 

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Yeah you need to use ATF with Mercon in a T-5
 

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You will be fine. Good stuff!
 

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The others are correct. Automatic transmission fluid is what is recommended for the T-5.

You will be just fine.
 
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This thread needs one more person to say "Yup". So here ya go. Yup!
 

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I suppose we should ask what year of T5 he has - the old ones took gear lube.
 

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Thanks guys i just got caught up with it saying automatic trans fluid. It would be a 88 T5.
 

89MustangGX

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HISSIN50 said:
I suppose we should ask what year of T5 he has - the old ones took gear lube.
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Sounds logical.

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So ... what year T5 is in your car?
 

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dkins419 said:
Thanks guys i just got caught up with it saying automatic trans fluid. It would be a 88 T5.
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Adam, so much for my logic. (it was worth asking).

ATF is what ya need. Enjoy.
 

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Adam, so much for my logic. (it was worth asking).

ATF is what ya need. Enjoy.
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No, really -- Somehow my post got lost for a little while and didn't show up until after the year was posted. Oh well.
 

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89MustangGX said:
No, really -- Somehow my post got lost for a little while and didn't show up until after the year was posted. Oh well.
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I wondered if something happened. I was offline for an hour and came back and I had to re-log back on (it usually saves my cookies). I wondered if the site went haywire while I was gone (there were not many new posts in that time, it did not seem).
 

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Daggar said:
This thread needs one more person to say "Yup". So here ya go. Yup!
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Oh Yeah?

Well I TRIPLE DOG YUP! YA. ....LOL...


inside jk from another thread....
 

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dkins419 said:
The other day i got some Mobil 1 Synthetic ATF Dexron/Mercon and i didnt notice that it said automatic transmission fluid til i got home. Can i use it in a T5?
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That's the same stuff I had in my t5...and it wasn't pretty. When I put it in, all I heard was chunking around; like my tranny was blown.

Granted, it's an old crappy trans from a junker, but it didn't make that much noise in the other car. I asked some of my buddies, and I was told to "cut" the fluid with some gear lube. NOW DON'T EVERYONE YELL AT ME FOR USING GEAR LUBE; I know it says to use ATF, and you SHOULD use it.

I just wanted to make a point that on my old beat-up tranny, the ATF was too thin & I needed to thicken it up a bit...not a lot though. I emptied just under a quart from the tranny, maybe like 3/4 of a quart. And replaced that with some standard gear lube. It's quited the noise A LOT, and I've had it in there since November without any adverse affects so far.
 
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