Mike Romain

TexasCJ7 wrote:
> On Jul 8, 12:20 pm, Mike Romain <roma...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> TexasCJ7 wrote:
>>> On Jul 8, 11:33 am, Mike Romain <roma...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>> TexasCJ7 wrote:
>>>>> Need my t-5 replaced or rebuilt.
>>>>> Thanks
>>>> What seems to be the trouble with it?
>>>> Mike
>>>> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
>>>> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's - Gone to the rust pile...
>>>> Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
>>>> Jan/06http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2115147590
>>> Was driving down the highway and heard a shearing sound. I lost
>>> ability to move forward, although it will go in every gear. I t will
>>> move in 4th gear which rules out a clutch problem. I think I might
>>> have run the fluid out of it but am not sure, I haven't checked it
>>> yet. Could it be a bent shifter fork or something else? What do u
>>> think?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Frank
>> Ouch!
>>
>> First thing is to check the fluid!
>>
>> I ran mine out of fluid once and it started going BANG BANG BANG in
>> every gear really bad except 3rd so I limped it 20 miles out of the bush
>> in a snowstorm at 9 pm on New Years Eve, got a local place to open up,
>> filled it with gear oil, drove 50 miles back to the bush camp we were at
>> and am still driving it 8 years later.
>>
>> I put all new seals in it shortly after....
>>
>> Do 'not' use GL5 fluid, you need GL4.
>>
>> Once you have fluid in it, then see what happens....
>>
>> Mike
>
> Mike,
>
> The Chiltons says that a t5 takes atf.
>

They tried that for one or maybe two years in some CJ7's (82 maybe?) and
figured out it didn't work so by the 85 year 'for sure' (have the owners
manuals) they went back to recommending gear oil for it and the 86.

I even checked with my local Canadian $tealership and they stated that
'if' you have shifting problems in the winter only, you could use ATF,
but it is 'not' recommended otherwise.

I have heard of some rebuilts that insist on ATF because they couldn't
get the tolerances good enough for gear oil or some other such thing.

Mike

SnoMan

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:44:41 -0400, Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

>I have heard of some rebuilts that insist on ATF because they couldn't
>get the tolerances good enough for gear oil or some other such thing.


ATF fluid requires tigher clearances in a manual gear box not looser.
A lot of gear boxes went to ATF to slitghly reduce pumping losses to
oil in gearbox and gain a few fractions of MPG.
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SnoMan

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:44:41 -0400, Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

>I have heard of some rebuilts that insist on ATF because they couldn't
>get the tolerances good enough for gear oil or some other such thing.


ATF fluid requires tigher clearances in a manual gear box not looser.
A lot of gear boxes went to ATF to slitghly reduce pumping losses to
oil in gearbox and gain a few fractions of MPG.
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SnoMan

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:44:41 -0400, Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

>I have heard of some rebuilts that insist on ATF because they couldn't
>get the tolerances good enough for gear oil or some other such thing.


ATF fluid requires tigher clearances in a manual gear box not looser.
A lot of gear boxes went to ATF to slitghly reduce pumping losses to
oil in gearbox and gain a few fractions of MPG.
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SnoMan

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:44:41 -0400, Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

>I have heard of some rebuilts that insist on ATF because they couldn't
>get the tolerances good enough for gear oil or some other such thing.


ATF fluid requires tigher clearances in a manual gear box not looser.
A lot of gear boxes went to ATF to slitghly reduce pumping losses to
oil in gearbox and gain a few fractions of MPG.
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