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Re: tranny thrashing
Posted by gorper (more from gorper) on Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:09:35
In Reply to: Re: tranny thrashing, MS, Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:16:19
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The car has a self-tweaked APC (redbox specs) and 150K on the clock; its power doubtfully exceeds anything you could have bought from Saab. I also use a stock APC.
I agree, yours is a perfectly plausible explanation for a "thrashed tranny" and, certainly, it stands to reason that the oil may have played no part at all.
But the point is not that the oil was the "obvious, easy explanation" -- it isn't. The point is that, in the absence of definitive proof, it makes sense to err on the side of caution and choose an oil of known properties over one whose aren't. (The other option -- changing one's driving habits -- is likely unreasonable to those who enjoy driving hard.)
Further, you could no more definitively blame my driving than I could the oil. Admittedly, my implication that the MTF was at fault may be flawed, and I should have heeded the adage that "correlation is not causation." But I'm not the only one: the suggestion that the tranny failed because I "decided [I've] got a rally car" and beat on it is no more valid.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Honda MTF - Cautionary gearbox tale for hard drivers, gorper, Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:19:25
- Re: tranny thrashing, MS, Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:16:19
- This one site said that Honda recommends, KB88900T, Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:37:20
- Re: Honda MTF, Kevin K
, Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:43:04 - I've been using Honda MTF on my rebuilt tranny for, KB88900T, Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:17:56
- No one listens to Townsend?, Russell Giuliano, Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:20:47
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