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Old Sep 25, 2009 | 03:05 AM
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Just wondering which one should I use when I change my Manual Tranny Fluid... Ive never done it so im not to familiar with it.. Thanks guys
Old Sep 25, 2009 | 03:59 AM
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go with MT-90. I used to have the royal purple and it wasnt shiftting that good, so when i tried mt90 it felt better, smoother, easier to shift.
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Ok thanks bro, I've heard alot more bout the Redline stuff then Royal Purple so it must be somewhat decent.
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I had problems with redline, grinding gears, jammed up and wouldn't go into gears it was a huge hassle and it was only in for like 400 miles when it started acting up. so I changed it out to eneos 75w90 and now I don't have those problems and I've had it in since may, almost fixed the problem immediatly
Old Sep 25, 2009 | 05:46 AM
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no issues with redline either.. you might look into amsoil too
Old Sep 25, 2009 | 09:18 AM
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Ok thanks bro, I've heard alot more bout the Redline stuff then Royal Purple so it must be somewhat decent.
ya i heard the royal purple has friction modifiers which our trannys don't agree with and well redline made stiff shifting for me eneos is starting to give me stiff shifts now that it got colder so now ill be trying amsoil.
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^^ so you have eneos right now and its starts to get stiff too? I wonder if someone has tried some motul 75w90
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yup the weather is getting cold here too and its getting stiff but nothing the way redline use to feel for me, redline wasn't really stiff it was literally jamming. once the tranny warms up my eneos feels better.

actually when I was getting the eneos my friend who owns a shop had motul, but I decided to go eneos bc he used them on all his cars so I did, I'm not complaining I love my eneos, but maybe ill change it again
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Interesting.... I guess ill just have to give 1 a try and if it should fail, try another. :D
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thats all u can do, i tried redline it failed and now i have eneos. eventually would like to try amsoil
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