I have already elaberated in several threads in this section. I do hate chewing my words more then about three time but here goes and I will condense it.
COld and Hot shift perforamnce in about 20 COrvettes, more MR2's then I care to count, about 20 Toyota Pick-up's, One 2003 Camry and one 2001 Dodge Dakota Quad Cab 4X4 have lead me to the following conclusions:
RP Lose's it's cold shift performance in manual transmissions in about 10K miles and it warm shift performance starts to get flaky no latter then 15-20K miles.
Amsoil Cold Shift Performance does not even start out as good as RP's but it does last longer before it is degraded to the point that I am swearing!
Redline MTL/MT90 hold their cold shift performance as long as I would care to keep any fluid in a manual trans! Their warm shift performance has never been affected. Also their gear lubes have always done great in any diff I have put them in. So when it comes to manual transmissions I will not use anything else then Redline and no I am not brand loyal since I buy cheap OTC synthetic at Walmart just gear lubes am I loyal about and it is due to performance not marketing.
In P/S and in Automatics I have never noticed a difference in Amsoil.Redline or Mobil 1 ATF oils I like them all. In fact I used Amsoil in my Dodge for the P/S and the T/Case because I ran out of Redline C+ which I was useing in place of ATF+4 back in 2001 when no one but the dealership had ATF+4 and they wanted $16 a quart and only sold it by the gallon.Back then I was getting Redline ATF+4 for $6.95 a quart from a past site sponsor. I think it was something like My little oil shop or something like that they where a Redline sponsor a long time ago. They pulled their sponsor ship because back then their was a lot of Redline hate on this site!
Oh I also do not like Swebco,Cen-Peco or Schaffer's in manual transmissions their gear oils are all good though for diff's!
As too gear lube I should probably say that I have more years useing M1 Gear LUbe then anything else because in Europe and int he USA for a long time it was hard to find 70W90 and that is what a lot of Toyota's called for. M1 use to make it and sell it widely at retail store's in Germany and in the USA. No one has ever accused M1 gear oil of being the best but I never had any issues with it in diff's,t/case's and even in manual transmissions until Redline came out. So it is the fluid I compare all other's too since I know it very well so for the ones I do not like to be worse then M1 gear oil is saying a lot because MTL's should easily out perform gear oil and I would also imagine that technology for the additives would ahve improved since the early 1990's when I stoped useing M1 gear lube.
COld and Hot shift perforamnce in about 20 COrvettes, more MR2's then I care to count, about 20 Toyota Pick-up's, One 2003 Camry and one 2001 Dodge Dakota Quad Cab 4X4 have lead me to the following conclusions:
RP Lose's it's cold shift performance in manual transmissions in about 10K miles and it warm shift performance starts to get flaky no latter then 15-20K miles.
Amsoil Cold Shift Performance does not even start out as good as RP's but it does last longer before it is degraded to the point that I am swearing!
Redline MTL/MT90 hold their cold shift performance as long as I would care to keep any fluid in a manual trans! Their warm shift performance has never been affected. Also their gear lubes have always done great in any diff I have put them in. So when it comes to manual transmissions I will not use anything else then Redline and no I am not brand loyal since I buy cheap OTC synthetic at Walmart just gear lubes am I loyal about and it is due to performance not marketing.
In P/S and in Automatics I have never noticed a difference in Amsoil.Redline or Mobil 1 ATF oils I like them all. In fact I used Amsoil in my Dodge for the P/S and the T/Case because I ran out of Redline C+ which I was useing in place of ATF+4 back in 2001 when no one but the dealership had ATF+4 and they wanted $16 a quart and only sold it by the gallon.Back then I was getting Redline ATF+4 for $6.95 a quart from a past site sponsor. I think it was something like My little oil shop or something like that they where a Redline sponsor a long time ago. They pulled their sponsor ship because back then their was a lot of Redline hate on this site!
Oh I also do not like Swebco,Cen-Peco or Schaffer's in manual transmissions their gear oils are all good though for diff's!
As too gear lube I should probably say that I have more years useing M1 Gear LUbe then anything else because in Europe and int he USA for a long time it was hard to find 70W90 and that is what a lot of Toyota's called for. M1 use to make it and sell it widely at retail store's in Germany and in the USA. No one has ever accused M1 gear oil of being the best but I never had any issues with it in diff's,t/case's and even in manual transmissions until Redline came out. So it is the fluid I compare all other's too since I know it very well so for the ones I do not like to be worse then M1 gear oil is saying a lot because MTL's should easily out perform gear oil and I would also imagine that technology for the additives would ahve improved since the early 1990's when I stoped useing M1 gear lube.
