so much for mercon 5

went to carquest today on lunch and got some dr. tranny, and NO MORE SHUDDER! woot, that stuff is awesome. they were telling me they sell a ton of it to the city for the cop cars.
 
isnt it awesome, its a miracle in a squeeze tube i'm telling ya, now i feel good considering i put it in my car with a fresh batch of mercon 5 and new filter. i dont care what people may say about that stuff being a temp fix or whatever, the point is, it worked, and if it buys me another 50 - 100k miles, you cant get that anywhere else for 6 bucks lol.
 
kustomizingkid said:
You must of used some voodoo tuning magice to make it last that long Tommy...
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gotta be careful with that voodoo majoctooning stuff.

one day I made some minor changes, and a accidently clicked one of the scalars in the speed limiter section.

I put the tune on the car.. went to bed..
Woke up and the damned car was GONE..

I tuned it right into another demension, it literally evaporated.
Found it bout 20 miles away where it fell outta hyperspace.

The whole front clip was blown from the car, all the interior had vaporized... but the SCT chip was still plugged into the PCM, it was one of the few things that survived the trip thru the worm hole.

wanna by my "hyperspace" chip?

be forewarned, the stealth generator is disabled in the tune.
and the speed limiter is also set very high

{hence the unexpected jump to hyperspace)
 
Jamie, how many miles from the "fluid change" until you reached the autoparts store?

reason I ask, is because it usually takes a couple of hundred miles for the merc 5 to get fully "worked into" everything

My first merc 5 change didn't solve the shudder immediately.

wonder if you just "got past the majic mile"?

might have been "mircale in a bottle".. or vooo doo.. or the planets aligned
 
tommy, i did the trans the sunday before last, so almost 2 weeks ago, the car got well over 500 miles since then, but it never felt like it would let up, i have done marks with shudders that did stop after a few hundred miles of new fluid, but mine barely had a shudder at all until i change it, then it was insane when it shifted it felt like i was on a rumble strip on the free way, it even vibrated the rear view tab off the windshield, had to put that back on too! it was horrible, but now, it hasnt shuddered once since i put the dr. tranny in, its perfect now.
 
I'm new to Auto Transmissions, what does it exactly do when it "shudders?".
 
The car feels weird as you drive it, like something is slipping or your driving on a really crappy road...
 
a shudder will feel like you are driving in the wake up strip on the side of the highway, its a loud hard vibration that usually comes between shifts. it sucks!
 
i put about 1500-2000 miles on mine with mercon 5 and the shudder just got worse as time went on. but the dr.tranny cured it instantly
 
This DR. Tranny stuff sounds pretty good. I will remember the name incase I ever need it.
 
jamie97lsc said:
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its a miracle in a tube!
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Sorry couldn't resist
 
Glad it worked out for ya Jamie, that's for danged sure.

have a good one bud
 
Today, I put in a bottle of Lucas Transmission Fix. (shop didn't have the stuff you tried)

Seems to be good - my shudder has now gone completely. (the Mercon V swap never completely stopped the slight 'hum' noise)
 
there is also some stuff from seafoam called trans tune that works pretty good ive used it in my mountaineer but the damn thing was already :q :q :q :q ed up but the tranny did have about 150000 miles on it. but i had an explorer with 329000 and the tranny was good till like 297000. and i had a cougar that had 212000 and all i did to that was change the fluid and that damn thing would still power shift into 2nd when i got on it :)
 
this is a good thread and if I ever have any trannie problems I will get that bottle.
 
dpoll995 said:
man all this has really got me scared to change my fluid now. i got the car with 150k on it and i have no idea if it has ever been changed or not. it shifts ok now, not like new but ok. only thing i really notice is it seems to down shift a little rough. any thoughts on changing it or leaving it alone?
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