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PKRWUD · 11-07-2001, 02:25 AM

Dave-
The stuff I'm talking about is called Slick50, and is available at any auto parts store for $10-$15 for a quart. Buy 1 quart of Slick50 and 4 quarts of regular motor oil, and a new oil filter, and go home and change your oil. When adding the new oil, pour in the Slick50. It will help free up sticky lifters and such, usually within a few minutes. For engines that weren't properly cared for, and that haven't seen regular oil changes, it may take a little longer. Anyway, that's it. Just leave it until the next time you change your oil, at which time you can just use 5 quarts of regular oil. I add a quart of Slick50 to my oil change every 50k miles.

Rev-
B&M is a good company, but they pretty much put F-type in a can and called it Trick Shift. The reason this worked, and was so popular was because there were so many more GM automatic transmissions in use than there were Fords, and F-type added to a GM tranny will make it shift very hard. Remember, the whole point of the auto tranny was to make the passengers not even notice the shifting. It was supposed to just "glide" through the gears. To help this along, Dexron became the GM fluid of choice, mainly because it had more lubricants in it. Dexron was to F-type what Slick50 is to conventional oil. So, if you were to add a quart of hydraulic fluid with minimal lubricating properties to a transmission that is accustomed to excessive slipping, it's going to bite, and shift harder. Problem is, GM transmission internals (clutch disks) weren't made up of the same, tough material as the same parts in Ford trannies, so when you reduced the lubrication, you increased the wear. Using F-type or Trick Shift in an otherwise stock GM tranny will spell it's doom within a few months. Now, when you rebuilt your GM tranny with B&M parts, or better yet, bought a B&M rebuilt tranny, the parts were tougher, and permitted Trick Shift. In fact, if you ran Dexron in a B&M GM rebuilt, your tranny would slip so bad you might need help getting home. It used to be common to carry a quart of F-type around with you in your older, stock GM tranny equipped car in case it started to slip, just so you could get home. Anyway, this didn't do much for the Ford owners. They basically already used Trick Shift, just for alot less money.

Take care,
-Chris

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11-07-2001, 02:25 AM	#13
PKRWUD Junior Member Join Date: Mar 1999 Location: Ventura, California Posts: 8,981	Dave- The stuff I'm talking about is called Slick50, and is available at any auto parts store for $10-$15 for a quart. Buy 1 quart of Slick50 and 4 quarts of regular motor oil, and a new oil filter, and go home and change your oil. When adding the new oil, pour in the Slick50. It will help free up sticky lifters and such, usually within a few minutes. For engines that weren't properly cared for, and that haven't seen regular oil changes, it may take a little longer. Anyway, that's it. Just leave it until the next time you change your oil, at which time you can just use 5 quarts of regular oil. I add a quart of Slick50 to my oil change every 50k miles. Rev- B&M is a good company, but they pretty much put F-type in a can and called it Trick Shift. The reason this worked, and was so popular was because there were so many more GM automatic transmissions in use than there were Fords, and F-type added to a GM tranny will make it shift very hard. Remember, the whole point of the auto tranny was to make the passengers not even notice the shifting. It was supposed to just "glide" through the gears. To help this along, Dexron became the GM fluid of choice, mainly because it had more lubricants in it. Dexron was to F-type what Slick50 is to conventional oil. So, if you were to add a quart of hydraulic fluid with minimal lubricating properties to a transmission that is accustomed to excessive slipping, it's going to bite, and shift harder. Problem is, GM transmission internals (clutch disks) weren't made up of the same, tough material as the same parts in Ford trannies, so when you reduced the lubrication, you increased the wear. Using F-type or Trick Shift in an otherwise stock GM tranny will spell it's doom within a few months. Now, when you rebuilt your GM tranny with B&M parts, or better yet, bought a B&M rebuilt tranny, the parts were tougher, and permitted Trick Shift. In fact, if you ran Dexron in a B&M GM rebuilt, your tranny would slip so bad you might need help getting home. It used to be common to carry a quart of F-type around with you in your older, stock GM tranny equipped car in case it started to slip, just so you could get home. Anyway, this didn't do much for the Ford owners. They basically already used Trick Shift, just for alot less money. Take care, -Chris ------------------ Retired Moderator MustangNet My site: Peckerwoods Pit Stop My teams site: Jim Porter Racing RACECAR spelled backwards is RACECAR HEY !!! Are you ASE Certified ??? If you are, ask me about iATN.