Re: synthetic tranny oil

From: Shane Moseley (smoseley@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 07:42:17 EST


Bluethunder318@aol.com wrote:

> ATF+3 dextron 3 ===same crapola......dropped the pan tonight,,,,Dealer only
> gave me 5 quarts of ATF+3 ,so the 6th quart was sunoco Dexron 3,I think it
> had friction modifier. It definately shifts nice now. Tranny fluid and
> filter change 98 dakota==
> 21,880.

Nope - ATF+3 and Dexron III are NOT the same. In fact - Chrysler recommends
that you DO NOT use any kind of dexron in these newer trannys. The newest ones
even require ATF+4 but I'm not sure if that includes the 98s. Good luck.

Latr,

Shane

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