anybody ever heard of doing this?

[96GT281]

so i go over to my friends house the other day and he drives a 98 honda civic ex. he was changing the tranny fluid in it and i was like "are you putting atf or gear oil in it" hes like "my car dont take that" and then i see the container. ADVANCE AUTOPARTS MOTOR OIL 10W-30 im like wtf are you serious and then he tells me "some trannys take atf and some take gear oil but mine takes 10W-30 motor oil and thats what the computer said" i left before i could no longer hold in my laughing never heard of trannys taking motor oil

 

[98COBRA281]

haha... timmy is a dufus!

 

[96GT281]

putting motor oil in a tranny is like getting negative camber with wheel spacers, it just dont make sense

 

[68stang351]

Some Honda manual transmissions are designed for 10w-30.

 

[96GT281]

i never heard that before

 

[COramprat]

It's not common but I've seen it before.

 

[96GT281]

on top of that he bought ANDAVCE AUTO PARTS OIL i mean if your not gonna put tranny fluid in it atleast put some decent oil in it and not oil that lasts for 500 miles

 

[LI98GTStang]

Yup. My 1990 civic si station car takes 10w-30 in the manual tranny. Strange but true.

 

[BlownStangGT]

on top of that he bought ANDAVCE AUTO PARTS OIL i mean if your not gonna put tranny fluid in it atleast put some decent oil in it and not oil that lasts for 500 miles

I heard that oil adds 24 HP to the wheels

 

[98stangv8]

I heard that oil adds 24 HP to the wheels

That isn't completely true...you have to put a big vinyl sticker on your car too...then you get the full 24hp...otherwise you only get about 5-7...

 

[darkside03gt]

yes there are more then a few manual hondas out there that take 10w 30. Honda acutally put out a tsb about it years ago because people were putting ATF in them and the syncros were getting jacked up. I know because I used to own a civic and when the trans went out I argued with the trans shop about putting trans fluid in the new trans untill he showed me the tsb.

 

[4tun8]

Foot meet mouth.

 

[blubullett]

I heard that oil adds 24 HP to the wheels

Sick!! Im gonna go outside and put oil on my wheels right now!!

 

[anotherstangfan]

now go apologize to your friend or....... just pretend it never happened and play it cool.

 

[4tun8]

I would have probably made the same mistake but I still find this extremely funny.

 

[4tun8]

I would have probably made the same mistake but I still find this extremely funny.

 

[Mustang5L5]

I've heard of that.


Some take ATF, some motor oil, some gear oil, some crisco.

 

[crazystang25]

yep we had a honda 5 speed tear up on us because of atf, put motor oil in it and it ran great. i know it is weird though. also if you add some vendor decals on there with your vinyls you can get like another 10hp too. lol. especially the street glow ones. i heard they give the most. and the big aero wings will cut your wind resistance in half.