[jeffcoslacker]

You'd be wasting your money, in all probability. In the past I've tried it on my own cars, and at a customer's insistance. It nearly always doesn't help at all, or even accelerates the disintegration.


For example, clutch packs have very little lining on their discs to begin with. The resins and waxes that accumulate from old fluid helps them to slip slightly, without heating, and is sometimes the only thing keeping them going.

Then you flush it out, washing away that protective varnish, and put in brand new fluid with very high shear strength, and it suddenly has enough grip in those wet clutches to tear the lining right off of them...

Tranny service is maintenance for a healthy tranny, not a repair for a hurting unit. If you really want to try something before giving up on it, Buy a can of Trans-X or Seafoam for transmission, your tranny has a drainbolt I believe, let the contents (probably about 3-4 qts) of the pan drain, then add your additive and refill to proper level without overfilling.

50/50 chance it may help, and you'll be out much less money than a full fluid exchange. By only partially changing the fluid, there is less chance of "shocking" the internals like I described.

But if the fluid is badly brown and burnt, really stinky, there's probably not much hope.