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Old 08-18-2010, 08:16 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by crainholio View Post
Congrats, it probably shifts a lot better now too. I flushed my wife's SUV w/ Valvoline Max-Life and the trans really came back to life.
That should really help stretch the life of the trans.

Last week I was stuck on the highway in stop/go traffic for an hour. Car was fully loaded and A/C blasting. Watching the temp gauge rise and fall, I was thinking "man, the trans oil is really getting cooked now! Got to get it changed!". What I thought was interesting is with the 180 thermostat, and re-programmed fan temps, the temp gauge never went over what was normal when there was a 195 thermostat in the motor. So maybe things are not getting as cooked as I thought. And with a 13K btu trans cooler, the trans should have things easier.

Hopefully, with the synthetic trans fluid, and the cooler, the trans will last a long time without any failures.
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