I was at Super Trak Warehouse last week, and noticed that Castrol now
sells a (conventional, I think) 7176 tranny oil. This is a direct
replacement for the Mopar oil that many have been paying $15/qt for. I
just checked the website (www.trakauto.com), and it's on sale this week
for $1.59/qt. It specifically states on the back of the
bottle that it is for use in transmissions that require Mopar 7176 fluid.
hope this helps.
David Gloff
Computer Technician
Valcom Professional Computer Center; Kemper/Scudder/Zurich Funds
aolim: dgloff
Loaded Intense Blue '99 Dakota Sport CC 318 5-speed 3.92SG
Sony C680 CD Player and HX-504 amp
Phoenix Gold XS 10" Sub, 6 1/2" midranges, 3/4" tweeters
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, dakota_5sp_v8 wrote:
>
> the NV3500 takes a proprietary oil that only MOPAR sells. Funny thing is I
> looked through the service manual's maintenance schedule and it does NOT
> call for a change throughout 120k MI plan B. However, it does call for the
> manual trans that comes with the v6. I bought the oil and plan on changing
> it because I have scratched a few times.
>
> Joel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro J. Diaz [mailto:pjdmd@mho.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 2:16 PM
> To: mail list, Dakota
> Subject: DML: Synthetics in NV3500
>
>
> Someone mentioned that they had noticed that people started having
> problems with their tranny once they started using synthetic.
> I perused the DML archives, and didn't find much on this.
> I asked the tranny guru at a local Dodge dealership, and he arrogantly
> reprimanded me for even thinking of using synthetics, " the Chrysler
> engineers designed it to run with a certain type of fluid, do you think
> you know more than they do?" Thinking this man is nothing but an
> engorged phallus, I don't quite believe him.
> So, I'll ask the experts...
>
> What do people use out there, and what's the conventional wisdom on it?
>
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