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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
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Subject: Re: Changing Transmission Oil in Honda Civic
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 13:00:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 13:00:09 1985
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> 
> I recently changed the transmission oil in my Honda Civic (Sedan)
> 1500 cc engine (1984). Draining the oil was no problem, but it took
> for ever to fill it back.  ...

> Also, I am planning to switch to Mobil-1 for the engine. The engine
> has about 21,000 miles on it. Is it too late to switch (I have read
> some people say that the right time to switch is immediately after
> break in period i.e. about 6000 to 8000 miles. Do I have too much
> deposits in my engine already to cause any problems?

A switch to Mobil-1 should be fine even up to about 50k miles.
I have used it in engines of various ages with no problems.

One word of warning though, don't put it in the transmission.
I put Penzoil PZL (Do they still make it?  I haven't seen it in years...)
in my transmission at the 50k change.  The car acted like the syncros
were going out.  Changed back to rot-gut 10w40 and all was well again.
Seems that the super slippery oils don't leave enough friction for
the sycro rings to work ...  (It is mighty hard to resist the temptation
to put the same 10w40 in both engine and tranny, the directions
don't say anything about the transmission being special - just says to
use 10w40 engine oil.  But I have only put plain oil in my transmission
(no super slippery stuff) since the fiasco at 50k miles.  It still
works like when it was new.)

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E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

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