Glad you got it cleared up. Hope it lasts. Ford fluid is, from a
friction-modification standpoint, exactly the opposite of what your
transmission needs. Any minute now, our resident Scamsoil droids ought to
be along...

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, gary wrote:

> I have to have ATF+4 in there. Went back to my invoice and see that
> they used 3 quarts of Quaker State FLM fluid. Did another internet
> search yesterday and found on Quaker States site... I have Ford tranny
> fluid in there!!! I dropped the pan and changed the filter, cleaned it
> all up and replaced. Added 4 quarts of fluid and then took the lower
> tranny line off of the rad and pumped another 5 quarts out that way and
> replaced with new.

> Took it for a spin and it was like I was driving a brand new vehicle. I had
> gotten so used to the hard shifts and cringing when it came to a shift
> change that I forgot what it was like to drive a smooth vehicle. I took it
> out for several spins after and it was so smooth I could hardly tell where
> the shift change was.