I am planning on flushing my tranny with some synthetic fluid. Does anyone know how many quarts I need?

 

When I did mine, I used 10-12 quarts before I got clean fluid.

 

What kinda fluid did you use?

 

use the cheapest fluid u can find to flush everything out once clean drain and filler-her up with geniune honda tranny fluid.

 

I was thinking about getting some amsoil synthetic because my friend can hook me up with that

 

according to HELMS, it's 3.1 quarts just to change, for a total flush, it's 7.6 quarts. and also, it only recommends using Honda ATF-Z1 fluid.

 

That's exactly what I used. Amsoil is very good stuff and is Z1 rated. I highly recommend. The tranny will behave much more stable with synthetic in it. Shifts will be more consistent. You won't have the differences in shifts between cold, normal operating temps and after a hard hot run.

 

cool, thanks for the advice!

 

Use synthetic grade. It's all our trannies take.

 

could that improve the hella workload i give my tanny? actually make it feel and run better...when i poped in my mobil1 for the first time it was like smooth as silk...im just afraid to go against the ONLY use hondaATF , may void your tranny warrenty too no?

 

Only way it will void warranty is if the fluid was not to the same specs as honda atf or better. Personally I would not use any thing other than Honda ATF

 

 

i gotta get my hands on one of these. good advice, fellas.

 

Its not like they can tell what kind of fluid you put in there

 

wanna bet? They can do a SOS analisys on the trans fluid

 

Amsoil Synthetic ATF meets Honda Z-1 specs.
http://www.amsoil.com/StoreFront/atf.aspx

Do you only take your car to the dealer for service too?

 

Amsoil rates their fluid to meet Honda Z-1 specs. They would have to prove why Amsoil did not meet Z-1 specs in order to void your warranty. Plus, with the trannys having a history of failure, they would not be too successful arguing that their tranny's are reliable when only using factory fluid and that the aftermarket fluid which is rated to meet their spec was the culprit.

If Honda Z-1 was the only thing that would keep your warranty intact, the same principal would apply to brake fluid, motor oil, coolant, windshield washer fluid, etc.

 

what's that got to do with anything?

I just love people like you who try to be smart...funny that I take my car to dealer for major service and when I have problems with something breaking out of warranty, I usually get some kind of assistance from Honda...... either dealer gives a SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNT or HOA picks up the tab entirely...for example the alt in my previous car '98 accord died at 99K and it was i paid for labor only.........

Now they do the routine matint on my CL-S and I think it's nice at my point in like to NOT HAVE TO WORK ON MY CAR