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Date:         Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:55:59 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: ATF Dexron
In-Reply-To:  <20110325151402.D67PO.187362.imail@eastrmwml34>
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Decided to go with the Dex/Merc, after looking at alternatives via an internet search, and having a few folks from this list respond, both on list and privately concerning it. Thanks to all who responded.

mcneely

---- Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote: > ---- Eric Ley <eric_ley@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Any ATF= automatic transmission fluid will work in the power steering system > > all the new models are backward compatible (so they say). > > Even Type F, or ones that specifically say not to use in transmissions requiring XXX? Of course, I am not using it in a transmission atall, but there must be differences in formulation, or there would not be differing labels and specifications. I was cautioned away from the product labeled Dexron VI, labeled as a synthetic, by a clerk at an Autozone, but I don't know that that means anything. > > Really, the only product I found that claimed back compatibility to include a plain Dexron was the Valvoline stuff I mentioned before. > > I suppose we are dealing with a system that does not become as hot as does a transmission, so less critical in some ways. But I hate to induce leaks in places they don't already exist. > > mcneely

-- David McNeely


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