OK so after changing my axels, I had a leak problem which has now fixed itself. In the meantime I had added ATX tranny fluid to my tranny which was low at the advice of a tech at Canadian Tire ( I didnt feel like adding 80$ worth of Readline MT90 which is what I normally use). Now my gears are a b***h and my tranny seems stiff. Liquid level is fine, but I was wondering did I just screw up my tranny by listening to this f**kers advice?
Please say no
Im gonna change the liquid this weekend anyways now that it doesnt seem to leak anymore. But I was curious if its to little, to late.
Dexron ATF is fine. It's actually better for low temperature shifting in the winter. But it doesn't provide as much protection in the summer heat. But I've got about 1 quart of Dexron 5 in my box right now because I didn't feel like buying yet another quart of Synchromesh after having to take my axles out for the thousandth time. It works fine for me.
if your talkin about an automatic tranny then this might help u and alot of other people who dont know this little known fact.....all automatic tranny fluid has cleaning agents added to it to clean help clean your tranny, problem is when u dont change it for long periods of time and the disks inside your tranny r old the fluid does end up cleaning your tranny to good and cleans off what little disk particle u had left which is why most mechanics who work on very old trannys or trannys with liquid thats not of redish color (it usually turns brownish when old) they reuse the old fluid so there wont b gear slips or what have u... so if your tranny fluid was old then id say u might have to get a new master kit but im just guessing i dont know the simptoms of your tranny