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Oct 5, 2008 | 07:42 PM

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cartmanea

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Drain the pan, change external filter, and refill. You'll get about 70% of the fluid this way. I just do shorter intervals than ford recommends for a complete flush to make up for this.

Oct 6, 2008 | 06:44 AM

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Fordsflylow

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I just bought a case of Mercon V and 8 quarts of syn (for front and back diff's @ $16.50/qt, and that's with autoshop discount, $22.xx/qt without) with 2 bottles of friction mod for the rear diff and it ran me $233 total. Unbelievable how much EVERYTHING has gone up!!

Oct 6, 2008 | 07:51 AM

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Mark Kovalsky

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cartmanea

Drain the pan, change external filter, and refill. You'll get about 70% of the fluid this way.

You'll get about 8 of 18 quarts this way. My calculator says that you're changing about 45% of the fluid, not 70%.

Oct 6, 2008 | 10:43 AM

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cartmanea

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Well, I thought it was 17 quarts total and I got 9 quarts out when I dropped the pan and changed the internal and external filters. So I guess it is a little over 50% is all. Still, I'll do this every 20k or so.

Oct 6, 2008 | 03:35 PM

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slowmans

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I buy mine online at k-mansparts.com best price I have found! good luck guys, oh and whaen I drained my pan and changed my external filter I have only had to add 7 quarts , and that was all 3 times I did it....

Oct 6, 2008 | 05:34 PM

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INF GUY

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We have em here in TX almost every wally world

Oct 6, 2008 | 07:49 PM

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cartmanea

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Whats the price there at Walmart? I need to talk with someone at the Wally World here to see if they can order it.

Oct 8, 2008 | 11:11 PM

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NorCalBusa

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$15 for 2 qts at the dealer.

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Oct 9, 2008 | 01:04 AM

#24

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My filter and fluid change cost me about $170 for fluid and filters. The fluid was $10.45 a litre. I talked him down from $13 something a litre. Filters were I think $27 and $28 a piece. The toilet paper roll being the more expensive of the two. These are Canadian prices.