Hey guys,
am from overseas (outside the US)...i went to the Honda dealership and asked them for a 99 b16 hydro tranny manual fluid and they gave me 4 litres of MTF tranny fluid....now the bottles are not written in English and says its made in Thailand....now what frightens me that when i told the parts man my tranny is hydro and make sure its not for auto or even cable type tranny's he said this is what we use on both cable and hydro type manual transmission! what do you guys think? is this true? is MTF tranny fluid an OEM stock fluid? it does say Honda on the sticker and it should be original cause i bought the fluid from the dealer, but the part number my friend in Pheonix provided me doesnt match with the one i have on the bottle i have!


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Modified by IntegraTypeR at 9:54 PM 3/16/2006

 

it doesnt matter if a tranny is hydro or cable.

what matters is if its MTF or ATF, manual transmission fluid, or automatic transmission fluid.

now your throwing in hydro, for your hydraulic clutch system, are you trying to replace the hydraulic fluid? or the transmission fluid.

hydraulic fluid is any dot3 brake fluid.
if your trying to change the transmission fluid, then honda mtf is indeed correct.

 

I use GM syncromesh or just a good quality synthetic oil.

 

you'll be fine

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by IVI &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it doesnt matter if a tranny is hydro or cable.

what matters is if its MTF or ATF, manual transmission fluid, or automatic transmission fluid.

now your throwing in hydro, for your hydraulic clutch system, are you trying to replace the hydraulic fluid? or the transmission fluid.

hydraulic fluid is any dot3 brake fluid.
if your trying to change the transmission fluid, then honda mtf is indeed correct.
</TD></TR></TABLE>

well am trying to fill my hydro transmission since it came from a rebuild from Gearspeed and about the clutch/brake hydro fluid i'll do that too since i want all fluids to be nice and fresh

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by IVI &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it doesnt matter if a tranny is hydro or cable.

what matters is if its MTF or ATF, manual transmission fluid, or automatic transmission fluid.

now your throwing in hydro, for your hydraulic clutch system, are you trying to replace the hydraulic fluid? or the transmission fluid.

hydraulic fluid is any dot3 brake fluid.
if your trying to change the transmission fluid, then honda mtf is indeed correct.
</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

I think you'll be okay with the fluid you have

 

Here are some photos of the MTF i bought:




it says its from Asia Honda Motor and the part number is
P/NO.08267-P9901ZT1

now the part number provided by my friend from Phenoix, US is:
087989016

what do u guys think? sorry i might be anoyying but i spend allot of money on this tranny rebuild by GearSpeed and dont want to use the wrong MTF!

 

bump

 

you'll be fine, i would've gone with gm synchomesh, but oem fluids are good to

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JEHatch69 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you'll be fine, i would've gone with gm synchomesh, but oem fluids are good to</TD></TR></TABLE>

cool....so this tranny fluid will be just fine even when boosted 18psi using a GT35R turbo? what causes a tranny to break?

 

woow thats some crazy TDM packaging! Ours is all plain in a gray bottle

 

NEVER EVER synthetic in a tranny. EVAR!! Tranny oil and motor oil have different purposes, hence the different names. What causes trannies to blow is when there isnt enough TRANNY fluid or when it overheats and breaks down. Did i mention never put synthetic motor oil in it?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by deadend9009 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">NEVER EVER synthetic in a tranny. EVAR!! Tranny oil and motor oil have different purposes, hence the different names. What causes trannies to blow is when there isnt enough TRANNY fluid or when it overheats and breaks down. Did i mention never put synthetic motor oil in it?</TD></TR></TABLE>

ok!
*if you had two choices between Shell or BP Visco 5000 engine oil which would it be? the only synthetic engine oil here is Mobil 1 and its really expensive
*do you think the bottle i have is what i should keep/use on my USDM hydro tranny? (by the way i do have a USDM hydro tranny that got built by gearspeed and shipped on the way to me)!

 

i used honda mtf and about half a bottle of gm synchromesh (gm's TRANNY fluid) to help with my lsd