I just bought some Penzoil Manual transmission gear oil its SAE 80W-140 Gl-5 will it work????????????

Please say yes cause if you do that means i can put it in and drive my zc finally i cant wait

 

i think ud be better of going to honda and getting their fluid ive heard that any other fluid makes noise in the tranny i havent tried anything else so i wouldnt know from experience

 

Yea go to the honda dealer. They will charge you around $10-15 to do it. THis will save you the nuckle busting hastle.

 

No....Get some Honda manual tranny fluid....!!!!!

 

haha
has anyone actually tired anything else? or do you just say what "everyone else says"

there is MTF-4 and MTF-5
MTF-5 isnt for hondas i belive
just check ur manual

 

we put some other crap in a friends and it made noise but we changed it right after that and it stopped the stuff is like 3.80 for a quart

 

I just did a swap and replaced the axels in the process. After I got the car running I drove up the road to the honda dealer and paid $10 to have them replace the oil in the tranny. Who better than Honda to know the correct amount of oil to replace and what kind is best. This is just my opinoin. Good Luck.

 

just use 10w-40. thats what the honda dealer told me to use, my neighbor is a honda mechanic and he also said to use it. he also recommended to use an oil additive called BG's for higher milage transmissions.

 

DO NOT use engine oil.
You must use gear oil, which is a totally different in composition.
Engine oil is detergent, you do not want that on your gears, there is no combustion
inside the transmission. Use Honda MTF.
I happen to have some experience on the matter.

 

Hmm i know a few people that have used 10w-30 motor oil in there tranny and have been fine

 

I have been using regular 10-30 engine oil in my dads accord for the past 100.000 miles with no problems
but I'm sure the honda oil is probably better.

 

what about using redline compared to honda oem MTF?

 

REDLINE = tranny death!
Usually in EF the crossshaft in the diff will die when using Redline MTL.
I've got two sitting here!

Bad pin.....



Good pin from 5g tranny, notice the heat treating.....

 

NO, NO, NO! You should use RedLine, but NOT the MTF and that was a problem.

You should use the RedLine Shockproof Ultralite gear oil (cost the same), with LSD additive if you have LSD.That will essentially be the best trans fluid for manual tranny that is available, and esp. good for very stressed motor (like turbo or NOS).

A lot of people make the mistake of running their MTF which is a bit thin whereas the Shockproof Ultralite is 70W0 with flow properties of lighter fluids.....

 

honda dealers dont carry maunual tranny fluid.
acura does.
but i recommend you to use 10W30 Castrol.
yeah i sound like im on crack, but the stuff works nice.
unless you can afford motul? hell find it even.

 

then wuts the gray bottle that say MTF manuel transmission fluid they have sitting with the honda oils and crap i dont know im not an expert or anything but i think its manuel transmission fluid in a honda dealers service dept. and the price was 3.80 for a quart

 

Maybe he should ask for Mugen MTF at the Honda dealer?

 

i was up at the dealer today and they said that a good motor oil 10w30 is just as good and that was the parts guy and my friend that works there said teh same so i dont know anymore

 

Well im just gonna go ahead and use valvoline 10w-30 motor oil

 

that reminds me, and being an amateur, are civics required to be maintained? i've never done any tranny fluid change before.

tahnx for the help.

 

I used 10-40 Castrol synthetic in mine and it stopped the 3rd gear from grinding...hmmmm...

 

#1 Honda MTF
#2 10w30 Motor oil
#3 does anybody know any cheap hookers???

 

How much fluid/oil are you supposed to put?


Mahalo

 

Use whatever you want...Honda tranny fluid or motor oil...

Service interval is 15k on tranny fluid...

 

Wow this post is back on the first page...............I went ahead and used 10w30 motor oil working fine