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Originally posted by ZmOz:
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Originally posted by DonCT:
Why not stick with what's been working? Mobil 1 is cheap enough at Wal-Mart that the price difference can't be more than about $15.
First, there is no walmart around here and the cheapest I have seen mobile 1 is $4.75/quart...and I need 7 quarts. I also am going to be changing ALL of the fluids, and I will be using synthetic in the diffs and probably the transfer case. It's going to be expensive enough as it is...
Easy solution.
Look at it this way.
Your choices are based on dollars.
You want the same as the car always had.
You take the money you would spend on DINO and buy the SYN for the MOTOR, that's number 1.
Then when the money comes in for the gears, replace them.
1. The gears take more abuse and can easily go at least twice what a oil goes because thers no combustion waste to ruin the fluids.
Second, a Syn in the gears will give you many many many miles more than a cheap dino, easily going 2-3-4-5 times, and chances are it was already taken care of and changed very frequently on normal peoples timescale.
I know people run dino and never change it and get 380-450K before the rear freezes or something like that... Certainly going a LITTLE while on the other fluids and taking the time to treat the engine to what its steady diet has been wont hurt.
So take care of IMPORTANT things first, and worry about the secondary issues later.
Put it this way, would you go an additional 10K on a tranny fluid reaching it's normal change or an ENGINE oil? Answers simple. Save the engine, the rest will take care of itself.