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I'm very familiar with your location born and raised in Hamburg, had land out in Wyoming county.
Oh yeah, you were a neighbor for sure. Matter of fact I worked at the Hamburg Wally World last night for a side job for security that's been going on since the Tops shooting.
When I drive home, I can see the hills and windmills in Wyoming county from top of the hill that I'm on going home. Nice country.
Besides the taxes of NY those Windmills were the reason I left. Would of been 3 within a 1/4 mile of the house. In hindsight the best thing that could of happen getting me out of there.
Our taxes suck for sure. I don't blame you for not wanting those huge wind mills that close to the house. Moving now is not an option but down the line, who knows?
30k mile drain and fill for 6R140 and transfer case
I finally got around to doing my third 30k mile maintenance on my trans and transfer case. Mileage was 91647 miles. I have to find the mileage for the one performed at 60k which I believe was just over 60k miles. I love keeping track of stuff on post it notes and my phone but need to put it all in one place.
When I did my first drain and fill at 31k miles, I decided to drop the pan to replace the filter. The "O" shaped magnet around the drain plug had a lot of break-in material on it then. I also added two high temp rare earth magnets to the bottom of the pan at that time of filter replacement/pan cleaning. So it's been 60k miles since I last opened up the trans. I took the truck for a ride to get the trans and transfer case fluid warm before I did this. I told the forum here that at this 90k mile drain and fill, I would take samples of each (the transmission and the transfer case) to send off to Blackstone for analysis to see how well this 30k mile drain and fill keeps the fluid. I am also sending in a new, virgin sample of the Mercon LV to see how the fluid samples compare to the new fluid. Is it overkill? Maybe. But I don't mind changing the fluid early to keep the trans and the transfer case in good shape.
Here's the pics:
The new trans filter that went in. I bought two of them from dieselfiltersonline.com. The next filter will go in at about 150k miles for another filter change interval of 60k.
The two rare earth magnets I placed into the bottom at 31k miles. I scrapped of the top of one prior to this pic.
Cleaned off more to show the magnet.
The cleaned version. These are some strong little magnets. Could not get all the stuff off....
Cleaned and ready to go back on...
The transfer case fluid looked better (redder) than the trans fluid. Stay tuned because when I get the results back, I'll post up here.
Nice! I will be changing my oil next weekend and will be sending my 2 oil analysis in! Looking forward to seeing what it shows!
My first drain and fill for the trans was at 31450 miles. I changed out the trans filter.
The second drain and fill for the trans was at 67147 miles.
This current drain and fill was at 91647 miles with filter change.
The transfer case was drained and refilled all three times. I'm curious to see what these analysis's yield. The trans fluid definitely looked darker than the transfer case fluid. I've read that the color doesn't mean anything as it turns darker red at one point (and has no effect on oil effectiveness) but with that said, I've seen videos of longer drain intervals and that fluid looked hardly red at all. It didn't look good at all. So I don't buy into the longer change or rather drain and fill cycles that people seem to think is okay.
I think this will be informative for the masses to see if the 30k mile drain and fill cycle is good at maintaining the LV's additives.
You sending in a trans fluid sample yourself?
Last edited by Overkill2; Jun 22, 2022 at 07:33 PM.
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My first drain and fill for the trans was at 31450 miles. I changed out the trans filter.
The second drain and fill for the trans was at 67147 miles.
This current drain and fill was at 91647 miles with filter change.
I think this will be informative for the masses to see if the 30k mile drain and fill cycle is good at maintaining the LV's additives.
Looking forward to your sample results Dave.
I still have the factory fluid in my transmission at just over 70k. I was wanting to drop it at 60k but life got in the way and haven't had the time. When I get it changed I will take a sample and send it off to Blackstone so we can compare notes.
I still have the factory fluid in my transmission at just over 70k. I was wanting to drop it at 60k but life got in the way and haven't had the time. When I get it changed I will take a sample and send it off to Blackstone so we can compare notes.
I still have the factory fluid in my transmission at just over 70k. I was wanting to drop it at 60k but life got in the way and haven't had the time. When I get it changed I will take a sample and send it off to Blackstone so we can compare notes.
I did my first transmission oil change at 84k miles. I currently have 60k miles on the current transmission oil and will change it this year.
After being overkill on my 96 F250, but I plowed heavy with that truck (I'll post a link here to a post I posted in the Club to explain), when I looked into what to do for the 6R140s, I've seen two popular Ford Techs on YouTube say that a 30k mile drain and fill cycle is good, that's what I did. And since I'm keeping my truck and not trading up or selling it, I'd rather be overkill than sorry. Mercon LV cases are cheap. A 6R140 rebuild or new unit is not. Just my feelings on it.
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This is how I made my 96 E4OD trans, IMO, last through some heavy commercial plowing in Buffalo.
My Overkill mentality to maintaining my transmission was to change the oil at ~ half the mileage Ford recommends since I felt like 150k miles was too long... right or wrong that's my logic.
My 05 Super Duty and my 98 F150 I changed the transmission oil every 30k miles like Ford recommended. At a combined 560,000 miles for these 3 vehicles, I haven't had any problems with any transmissions. Having said that I firmly believe this 6 speed transmission is a much better transmission than the 05 and 04 transmissions.
My Overkill mentality to maintaining my transmission was to change the oil at ~ half the mileage Ford recommends since I felt like 150k miles was too long... right or wrong that's my logic.
My 05 Super Duty and my 98 F150 I changed the transmission oil every 30k miles like Ford recommended. At a combined 560,000 miles for these 3 vehicles, I haven't had any problems with any transmissions. Having said that I firmly believe this 6 speed transmission is a much better transmission than the 05 and 04 transmissions.
I'm not calling out your logic at all, Troy. I'm just overkilling the explanation of mine is all...
Anyways, just came across this while looking at something for a reply I will posting to a new user here.
