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87 9kt 5-speed tranny failed.... Redline MTL ??
Posted by MarkusD (more from MarkusD) on Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:26:51
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Well, I have not been keeping up with this board lately... things had been going pretty well with the auto-to-manual conversion that I completed last summer.
Despite the warnings of Robert Davis (he had just started to post messages with warnigns, I believe), I went ahead and used Redline MTL in the replacement 5-speed, which had about 85000 miles on it. Now, less than a full year later, I have had dramatic failure of the transmission... i.e. big crunch and then metal chunks and pins on the ground...
So, add me to this list of unexplained Redline MTL transmission failures! I can't be sure that the Redline MTL was the cause, but I can't come up with any other explanation... I know that the transmission "should" last for well over 100k miles...
I ordered a rebuilt 5-speed from Eriksson and that sucker is getting plain ol' 10W-30!
Sorry that I doubted you Robert!
Posts in this Thread:
- 87 9kt 5-speed tranny failed.... Redline MTL ??, MarkusD, Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:26:51 <-- Viewing This Message
- 5-speed failure, Robert Davis, Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:06:44
- Such a major transplant should have called for a REBUILT, Daren, Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:30:37
- Re: 87 9kt 5-speed tranny failed.... Redline MTL ??, Rob O'C, Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:06:15
- well....they can fail at that mileage with 10W30 too....so..., stevec in bc, Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:31:01
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