Thoughts On Royal Purple Oil?

[Twister]

And gear oil in arranger/bronco trans comes up again! Lmao

The FM series manual take gear oil though, but not the M5OD

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[Rowdy Fitzgerald]

Yep but I figured it would turn into a heated debate like the last couple times it's came up. I wasn't sayin it shouldn't be put in. 80w gear oil should be put in the Mitsubishi transmissions but not the Mazda transmissions. It's been several years since I messed with a ranger trans so I looked it up in the manual. It says 83-87 use 80w gear oil. 88 on only use it in the Mitsubishi transmission.

 

[OilPatch197]

Yep but I figured it would turn into a heated debate like the last couple times it's came up. I wasn't sayin it shouldn't be put in. 80w gear oil should be put in the Mitsubishi transmissions but not the Mazda transmissions. It's been several years since I messed with a ranger trans so I looked it up in the manual. It says 83-87 use 80w gear oil. 88 on only use it in the Mitsubishi transmission.

My truck came with a manual 4 speed, it had a bolt on bellhousing. We came into possession of a 5 speed. We were able to swap bell housing and converted to a internal slave cylinder, move the transmission cross member to the "other" set of holes in the frame and we made a little spacer plate so we could still use the 4 spd shifter.

It worked great. Then we had problems with aftermarket starters, (I had to replace the bendix, from a 9 tooth to a ten tooth starter gear.
)The aftermarket starters all have nine teeth, if you got a early manual, a 2.8 with a manual, make SURE, you may need to go to a starter shop and have the new starter retrofitted with a TEN tooth starter gear.

 

[JohnnyO]

My transmission is a 5R55E and the manual said it needs mercon v.

Yes but that's an automatic. Last I looked, Ford manual trannys called for plain Mercon. I've used Mobil 1 ATF which is rated for Mercon and Mercon V both.

 

[MastuhWaffles]

Yes but that's an automatic. Last I looked, Ford manual trannys called for plain Mercon. I've used Mobil 1 ATF which is rated for Mercon and Mercon V both.

Exactly, that's why I put mercon v in it. The castrol stuff I got is pretty good, it was actually the only stuff I could really find.

 

[LearjetMinako]

Just to let you know, I use Royal Purple in all my engines, even the lawn mowers. RP is good stuff and keeps internal parts clean. I can really feel a difference in the manual transmission when I switched from Mobil 1 ATF to RP SyncroMax. My Ranger has been using Royal Purple since 85k miles, it is now over 150k miles and still runs great.

 

[Die.Fledermaus]

The old Royal Purple motor oil was awesome, used it on everything also.

But, and it is a big one: It was improved (No longer SL API) to the same current/improved EPA mandated everyone has gone to.
I have been too suspicious to try it.
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I do agree that the gear oil does seem to be nicer than average.