Lucas tranny conditioner works

[Meat Popsicle]

My 01 has had all the updates, flush etc. Still had eratic, hard, missed etc shifting.

I put in the tranny conditioner. VIOLA. smooth as can be. nice shifts seesm very regular. Hot or cold I feel like i have my tranny back where is should be.

Any of you used it before?

I can tell it increases the viscosity. the additive is very thick take a bit to pour

[JRL]

Please post again after a few thousand miles and tell us if it still feels good

[brbevil]

I used on my old Land Rover Discovery - What a difference. Lucas products are top notch. That being said however I have not placed in my xc70 yet. If that time comes I would not hesitate!

[Meat Popsicle]

Please post again after a few thousand miles and tell us if it still feels good

600 as of today still feels great!

[Omega5]

Which Product did you use? They have two transmission products listed on the site, what is the exact name of the product you used?

[MoeB]

You may want to read this. Or not...

http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/images/lucas/lucas.htm

[Forkster]

I'm with MoeB. BITOG[http://www.bobistheoilguy.com (http://www.bobistheoilguy.com) has a pretty good analysis on these addititives like Lucas. The results are well... they stink. They don't have enough anti-foam agents in them.

After putting in and running for a bit. (Images courtsey of BITOG)
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/images/lucas/runningnolucas.jpg

After running for a while at higher speeds.
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/images/lucas/normal140climb.jpg
It turned white because of the trapped air.

I can't tell you what that may do to your transmission...:eek:

[MoeB]

To be fair, that BITOG write up is for a different product. Still, if their flagship product doesn't live up to the hype, it's hard for me to have much confidence in the rest of their line.

I looked at the MSDS sheet (http://www.lucasoil.com/images/medialibrary/product_msds_12.pdf) for Lucas Trans Fix. The viscosity cSt @ 100° C is listed as "greater than 60," yet on their data sheet (http://www.lucasoil.com/images/medialibrary/trans_fix.pdf) it is given as 48 "typical." It's also described as "slightly tacky." SAE 90W gear oil has a viscosity cSt range of 13.5 to 23.99. An oil with a cSt above 41 is SAE 250+. "Slightly tacky" is probably an understatement. Given that JWS 3309 is designed with friction modifiers specifically for the AW-5550's slipping lockup design, I would need some kind of proof that it's OK to add "tacky" SAE >250W oil to the ATF before I tried it.

[Omega5]

Well done, proof collaboration works.

One more thing i got from BOB is that 100% synthetic is not as great as what it's cracked up to be. What do you guys get out of that?