[Shotimes] ATF choices, help

[Paul Nimz]

In my Festiva which is a Mazda made by Kia and sold by Ford they use ATF in
the US and 80-90W oil in Asia for the manual tranny.

Paul


On 9/1/2005 10:39:34 AM, Ron Porter (ronporter@prodigy.net) wrote:
> I went through that with a 93K-mile
> '91 tranny (A Fiz tranny that I put in
> my '95) that should have had the
> "paper" synchros. Tried a few different
> fluids, and the worst was Mobil 1. It
> didn't want to shift cold or hot.
>
> Finally tried bottom-of-the-line Coastal 80w-90 from AutoZone. Worked like
a
> charm, although technically it wasn't
> supposed to! And I caught hell from
> the purists on these lists that said my tranny would blow up any day. My
> take is that, if the fluid makes the tranny shift well,
> that's the best
> fluid.
>
> Did you try Mobil 1 ATF, or the Mobil 1 tranny fluid (forget exactly what
> it's
> called now)?
>
> Keep trying different stuff......something will click.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.
> net]
> On Behalf Of Bill Murray
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:38 PM
> To: TechSHO@topica.com; shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] ATF choices, help
>
> As some may remember, I have been having clutch issues since June that I
> have finally resolved.  After dropping the transmission for the 5th time,
> I
> replaced the TOB again and polished the qui