Ford Automatic Transmission Fluid - ATF History Part 3

Hello I'm professor John Kelly and this is the  WeberAuto YouTube channel. This is the third in   a series of videos on automatic transmission  fluid history. This is on Ford automatic   transmission fluids. Now in the first episode we  looked at an overall introduction to automatic   transmission fluid history, in the second  episode we looked at the 80-year history of   General Motors automatic transmission fluids, and  we looked at them first because General Motors in   1939. 80 years ago was the first to release  the world's first mass-produced automatic   transmission now the automatic transmission back  then the first automatic transmission was a big   hit everybody loved the automatic transmission  and that's because it eliminated two big jobs   of driving one of them was that you didn't need  to use the clutch pedal anymore it didn't have   a clutch pedal the clutch pedal was replaced with  a fluid coupling that today has evolved into what   we call a torque converter the second thing the GM  Hydra-Matic transmission did was, it automatically   shifted from one gear to the next so those were  two big technological advancements that no one   had done in a mass-produced environment up to  that point so a fluid coupling to get rid of   the clutch pedal and automatic shifting to shift  from one gear to the next all those vehicles had   was a gas pedal and a brake pedal no clutch  pedal no shift lever to shift from one gear   to the next so that was in 1939 now we can't talk  about what Ford did with automatic transmissions   without also talking about what Chrysler did in  1939 now Chrysler was also attempting to come   up with some way to make driving easier and  safer they eliminated the need for a clutch   pedal under most conditions while driving their  vehicles by replacing the traditional clutch with   a fluid coupling so in 1939 Chrysler released was  what was called the fluid drive transmission and   the fluid drive transmission was a three-speed  manual transmission it still had a clutch disc   pressure plate and flywheel but that flywheel and  pressure plate and clutch disc was connected to   a fluid coupling that was then connected to the  engine now I have a fluid drive over here let's   take a look at it this is the fluid coupling from  the Chrysler fluid drive and we someone years ago   cut a section out of it so you can see the two  impellers of the fluid drive here as I rotate it   I want you to notice that the turbine impeller  that would drive the transmission is connected   to the pressure plate of a manual transmission so  we've got a flywheel a pressure plate and a clutch   disc all right here connected to a fluid coupling  so you could step on the clutch pedal put your   three-speed transmission into whatever gear you  wanted depending on if you're doing city driving   or highway driving and then let the clutch pedal  out the fluid coupling with the engine running   would allow the engine to keep running at idle  it wouldn't stall and then just like with an   automatic transmission you would step on the gas  pedal and the vehicle would slowly accelerate   away as the fluid would drive the clutch disc in  the input shaft of the transmission to make the   vehicle move down the road so Chrysler's fluid  drives and they had many different names of this   system from 1939 up through 1955 and variations  of this but this was their way of making a   vehicles safer and easier to drive and from what  I understand talking to people at car shows that   I've been - it's real easy to drive and people  loved it the only strange thing about it is if   you put the transmission into high of a gear you  wouldn't have much acceleration you'd have to step   on the clutch pedal moved the transmission to  a lower gear and then let the clutch pedal back   out and then you could accelerate more quickly but  one guy I spoke to at a car show recently said he   just leaves it in third gear and drives it around  town that way and drives it down the highway that   way also and as long as he's not in a big hurry  to accelerate then it's no big deal so this was   Chrysler's fluid drive system which was in no  means an automatic shifting transmission but it   got rid of the need for the clutch pedal under  most conditions and it used a special fluid called   the Mopar fluid drive fluid that went inside  of it well Ford it turns out copied this they   copied this idea and in 1941 for the 1942 model  year released a transmission in as an option in   mercury there was a Mercury and some Lincoln's  that you could get the new Liquamatic drive they   called it the Liquamatic drive so as you can  see here in this picture it shows the chromatic   drive and describes how smooth it is and what  it does and so on and it basically was a fluid   coupling just like this but then it had a manual  transmission that was shifted for you it used   vacuum solenoids and vacuum motors to move the  shift Forks back and forth to actually shift the   manual transmission for you so in a way it was it  was a little bit more advanced than the original   Chrysler fluid drive although the later ones did  the same thing in Chrysler's but Ford did that at   for the beginning of the 1942 model year and then  the US was drawn into world war ii at the end   of 1941 halfway through the 1942 model year and  productions in February or March of vehicles with   the Liquamatic drive because of world war ii and  after world war ii towards the end of 1945 when   production resumed on making vehicles again they  dropped the Liquamatic drive apparently add a lot   of problems and from what I've read dealers were  taking the Liquamatic drive systems out of the   vehicles that they were put in and replacing them  with manual transmissions and regular clutches so   Ford had an entry into the attempted automatic  transmission field but never really got in full   speed prior to World War two one more thing on  Ford's Liquamatic Drive, they didn't use a special   fluid inside of it according to the service  information that I found in the 1946 Motors manual   and in some magazines that people have sent me  with history and information on that Liquamatic  drive it used just regular SAE ten weight real  lightweight oil motor oil in the fluid drive of   the Liquamatic in 1949 Lincoln started offering  the General Motors Hydra-Matic transmission in   their vehicles so as you can see here in this  picture in this magazine ad they were advertising   the Hydra-Matic transmission so the transmission  interchanging between General Motors and Ford   has been going on a lot longer than just recent  history they've done it several times since then   but Lincoln the Lincoln luxury cars offered from  1949 through 1954 it looks like the Hydra-Matic   transmission the four-speed transmission in their  luxury cars this ad here has a couple of things   that are interesting this is a 1953 ad and it  says that has a new 205 horsepower v8 engine   with the Hydra-Matic transmission, it also says  it has new power brakes new power steering and   the world's first four-way power elevator seat so  that an electric seat to go up and down apparently   they're claiming that's the world's first at the  in that car right there so that's very interesting   I've got a 1952 Lincoln chassis service manual  here and the transmission fluid called for in   the Hydra-Matic in the Lincoln was called Lincoln  automatic transmission fluid so they rebranded the   General Motors Hydra-Matic transmission fluid  since that's the fluid that that transmission   takes it says it is important to use only Lincoln  automatic transmission fluid this is an all-season   fluid ideal for year-round operation caution  flushing of the unit is not recommended so   I've searched all over a bay and everywhere I can  think of to try to find a can of Lincoln automatic   transmission fluid I can't find one I was lucky  to even find a General Motors Hydra-Matic can have   fluid or a couple of my found a couple different  ones for the old original Hydra-Matic but they   were very rare in Lincoln's and that fluid has got  to be just an extremely rare bottle or can to come   by so if any of you ever see one I'd like to like  to see a photograph of it if you'd send me one all   right so Lincoln used General Motors Hydra-Matic  transmission now in 1950 Ford finally released   their own fully automatic three-speed transmission  now there's some brochures that Ford released at   the time talking about their new Ford-O-Matic  transmission and I opened it up started reading   through here what several months ago when I bought  this and had the kind of chuckle now remember this   is 1954 the 1951 model year so this is 11 full  model years after General Motors released their   automatic transmission so I don't know what the  problem was at Ford why they delayed so long   coming up with their own automatic transmission  but listen to this listen to the publicity the PR   public relations spin on why they waited so long  with the introduction of the Ford-O-Matic Drive   Ford is making available to the motoring public  the automotive industry's finest achievement and   automatic transmission engineering Ford-O-Matic  has been under development for many years now   during which time the basic design has been  tested studied and compared with other automatic   transmissions originating both in this country and  abroad Ford-O-Matic owners will definitely benefit   from these years of engineering study and research  which placed the new 4matic drive well ahead of   most automatic transmissions and the comparative  table on page 23 provides substantial evidence of   that fact so they waited my interpretation of that  is they waited 11 years because they were studying   and wanted to come up with the finest transmission  they could what a bunch of baloney anyway they   finally released an automatic transmission in  1951 the three-speed automatic now Ford had not   developed their own automatic transmission fluid  so everybody up until about 1959 1960 everyone   with an automatic transmission was using General  Motors automatic transmission fluids so go back   and look at episode 2 if you want to learn more  about General Motors automatic transmission fluids   but the fluid that's called for in the Ford-O-Matic  transmission is the General Motors Type A fluid   so I've got two examples of the Type A fluid  General Motors licensed the production of that   fluid as long as it met the armored qualification  standards so here is a can of Gulf Type A fluid   and it has a license number on the top of AQ  ATF-291 so this is a licensed bottle or can of   General Motors type a fluid this is fluid would  have been approved for use in the Ford-O-Matic   transmission here's a cam from the Texas company  Texaco Tech somatic fluid Type-A it says right   there and it has an armored qualification number  of AQ ATF-102 so both of these ype-A fluids would   have been approved for use in the Ford-O-Matic  automatic transmission so General Motors developed   that fluid specification the Type A fluid  specification in 1949 prior to that it would   have been the Hydra-Matic transmission fluid then  I've shown you previously ok so right back here is   the Ford-O-Matic transmission I've not had time  to clean it up very much or play with it yet but   I'm going to so 1951 through 65 Ford-O-Matic  drive three-speed and as I mentioned it used   this uses the General Motors Type A automatic  transmission fluid now by 1959 Ford had decided   that they were needing to develop their own  automatic transmission fluids for their automatic   transmissions because since the Ford-O-Matic  came out in 1950 Ford had released several other   automatic transmissions there was a Merc-O-Matic  that was used in Mercury's that was basically the   Ford-O-Matic they had a Cruise-o-Matic that  they had the Lincoln turbo-drive they had a   they had a mercury multi-drive as you can see in  this magazine ad here's a 1953 Ford-O-Matic   automatic transmission advertisement and it reads  you don't drive a forward it drives you talking   about how easy it is to drive it reads a Ford  car is probably the most helpful car you've ever   laid your hands on not only does it seem to think  for you it acts for you just turn the key and it   starts if you're driving a Ford-O-Matic Ford just  put the drive selector in Drive and it shifts for   you a well of a lot better than you could ever do  by hand you get exactly the right amount of power   you want when you want it automatically now you  simply can't beat that cool stuff in all of the   Ford-O-Matic manuals that I've purchased they all  have a fluid level check interval and a fluid type   this tells us to check the fluid level every 1000  miles and that it uses a Type-A fluid and this is   a 1956 Ford-O-Matic manual another interesting  automatic transmission that Ford came up with is   the here's a 1957-58 TransMatic Drive this was a  six-speed automatic transmission that they used in   their medium duty and heavy duty trucks incredible  they had a six-speed automatic transmission back   then and if I open it up to the page where they  talk about lubricants and fluid level and all that   stuff this also says if necessary add automatic  transmission fluid Type-A to this transmission   so oh by the way this fluid level or this fluid  should be changed every 10,000 miles unless it's   used off highway then it should be every 5,000  miles so that's a trans Matic Drive but still   the same type a fluid I've got a manual here  for the Lincoln turbo drive and it tells us to   use five quarts of Type-A automatic transmission  fluid even gives us the part number 8l -195   82 so by 1959 Ford had released their own fluid  specification that they called their type a fluid   and from what I've read it had GM type A suffix  A fluid characteristics so it was very much like   the GM fluid but modified just a little bit for  whatever needs Ford had also in 1959 they made   another revision to that fluid and called it  the Type B fluid and then from what I found I   couldn't find a Type C fluid being referenced  but I did find a Type D fluid and the Type D   fluid I actually have a can of right here this is  Ford's from 1960 Type D fluid this can has eight   of 1960 as the date on it and across the front  of it here has Ford Thunderbird Mercury Lincoln   Continental and Edsel as Ford brands that this  fluid services it has the old Ford logo and on   the back it says for complete service instructions  refer to the Ford lubrication chart so it doesn't give   us much information other than that and so the  Type D fluid was introduced for the nineteenth   year in 1960 and it ended up being used in the  previous Ford transmissions as well as in 1964   of the C4 three-speed transmission and in 1966 the  C6 three-speed automatic transmission and in 1968   the FMX three-speed transmission so that's the  Type D fluid so in 1967 Ford released the fluid   specification called Type-F now this is not a  Ford brand but this is a Ford licensed Type-F   fluid it gives the fluid law or the license number  here on the top of the can and the fluid standard   and says it meets the Type-F specification so  forward just like General Motors licensed other   resellers to rebrand and make their own fluid as  long as it met their fluid specifications and when   it was tested and passed those specifications then  they would receive a license number like you would   see here on the top of these cans and from what I  can see on these license numbers the cans or the   license number is actually the date of the date  the license was issued or the date of the standard   I'm not sure but the Type-F fluid from what I can  tell was released in 1967 and was used for many   years here's an actual forward can of Type-F fluid  it doesn't really say Type-F fluid on it but if   you read the lid here the license number and has  a Type-F after that license number indicates it's   a Type-F fluid Texaco of course had their own  Type-F fluid here's Quaker State Ford Lincoln   Mercury fluid here's a little bit newer but faded  in the Sun Motorcraft Type-F fluid here's Pennzoil   Type-F and interesting Texaco released one pint  cans of Type-F fluid rather than the quart or pint   or liters I mean that would be released in Canada  or other countries so the Type-F fluid from what I   can tell came along around 1967 and was used for  a number of years until 1974 when the next fluid   specification came out now why did he why do these  fluid specifications change what it for change him   well for different operating characteristics of  different transmissions from what I've read the   Ford Type-F fluid gave some fairly hard shifts  the next fluid specification to be released is   the Type-CJ fluid Ford Type-CJ fluid now this  fluid specification came out in 1974 and it   gave more smooth shifts than the Type-F fluid  did and so there were transmissions that were   built for the Type-F there were of transmissions  built for the Type-CJ in the service information   that I have here it tells us not to interchange  those two Type-F needs Type-F transmissions need   Type-F fluid and n Type-CJ transmissions need the  CJ fluid alright I have another can of Type-CJ   fluid here but as you can see it says that it's  Dexron to automatic transmission fluid from Motorcraft   you might be wondering why would motor  craft be using Dexron II well there were some   transmissions that Ford used that required  Dexron II automatic transmission fluid there   were some manual transmissions and there were some  automatic transmissions Ford used a ZF automatic   transmission in some of their vehicles that  required Dexron-II so Ford sold a licensed and   it's got a GM Dexron IID license number right here  on the top of the can but this also on the top of   the can tells us that it's compatible with the  four Type-CJ fluid specification so the Type-CJ   fluid specification was the first one that had  some cross compatibility with the GM Dexron were   on to automatic transmission fluid and that would  be the 2D as shown here on the license number   this has a license number of D21133 so Ford sold  license GM Dexron automatic transmission fluid and   they also said you could use it in transmissions  that called Ford Type-CJ right here on the top of   the of the can it also says it's compatible with  the older General Motors type a suffix a fluid so   this one can of Dexron fluid for Motorcraft is  compatible with Ford Type-CJ Dexron 2D and the   old GM type a suffix a so this was the first of  what became some cross-compatibility kind of a   unique time in the history of Ford and General Motors  fluids having very similar fluid characteristics   alright a couple of other things happened in the  early 70's besides the CJ fluid being released   in 1974 in 1971 group to base oils started to be  refined with a new refining process so prior to   1971 all transmission fluids were made of a group  one base oil plus a whole bunch of additives and   a group one base oil is a lower quality base oil  it has to be changed quite frequently Group two   is a little bit better and doesn't need to be  changed quite as frequently and doesn't require   as many additives as the Group one in 1973 which  is probably why in here in 1974 Ford released the   Type-CJ fluid they are the industry as a whole  the automatic transmission fluid industry finally   got rid of using whale sperm whale oil in their  automatic transmission fluids and there's a lot   of bad information out there saying that it was  a friction modifier it was not a friction fire   it was an anti-corrosion anti-rust additive that  would coat everything and then when the moisture   in the air was present when the vehicles not being  driven it would prevent surface rust and corrosion   from taking place so they had to replace that  with another anti-corrosion anti-rust additive and   then in 1974 a group for base oil started to be  refined for use in motor oils and it was not used   in automatic transmission fluids for many years  all right so we've looked at the Type-CJ fluid   they were released in 1974 let's move on now to  the type H fluid type H in the late 1970s torque   converters added an additional part called the  torque converter clutch that when applied would   connect the crankshaft of the engine directly  to the input shaft of the automatic transmission   and this input or this torque converter clutch  as it hydraulically applied and released would   shudder with the previous fluids and so there  was a revision to the fluids that almost every   automobile manufacturer made are in the late 70s  early 80s Ford released in 1981 the type H fluid   specification which helped address the torque  converter shuttering issue which we still have   shuttering issues today now I could not find a  can of Ford type H but I found a can of mobile   Type-For H and notice it reads that it's Dexron  2 and Ford type H compatible but on the top of a   can here it only has a Dexron license number so this  is really Dexron to automatic transmission fluid   it's called mobile Universal ATF but they're  claiming Type-Ford type H compatibility but it   does not have in the details back here a forward  license number for the type H so this shows me   that the Ford type H and the Dexron 2D as  evidenced with the license number here we're   also cross-compatible so according to Ford's own  specs here and their own bottled fluid the Type-CJ   and Dexron-2D were compatible the type H and  Dexron-2D are compatible that's it as far as those   fluids are concerned so after the Type-CJ fluid  was released for donor released one automatic   transmission one new automatic transmission the C3  three-speed automatic used in the 1974 and above   Ford Pinto after the type H fluid was released  they released four new automatic transmissions   one in 1982 the C5 transmission that was  basically the C4 transmission with a torque   converter clutch in 1985 they released the A4LD  which was a four-speed automatic with a torque   converter clutch in 1986 they released the ax OD  4-speed and 1986 also the aA4LD both of those 4   speed automatic with torque converter clutches to  improve fuel economy because of the newly enacted   for 1978 corporate average fuel economy ratings  they had to do something like add four speeds   and a torque converter clutch to improve the fuel  economy of these vehicles alright so that was 1981   in 1987 Ford released the very first Mercon fluid  specification now this Mercon fluid specification   is a real confusing specification today because  all of Ford's fluids today have the word Mercon   in them so here's Mercon V here's a Mercon  SP Mercon LV Mercon ULV all of those have   the word Mercon in the original Mercon fluid  just said Mercon it didn't have any letters   or anything else after it was just Mercon now  in today in the aftermarket world of automatic   transmission fluids if like on this bottle of  O'Reilly fluid it says it's compatible for use   in General Motors and Ford automatic transmissions  but if you read the details on the back here it   says that this high-quality product is suitable  for use in all General Motors and Ford automatic   transmissions calling for and I'm going to skip  all the GM ones this one calls for in Ford   the Mercon specification released in 1987 and  the Type-CJ fluid that was released in 1974 so   this bottle of fluid and almost all of them that  say Dex/Merc or multi-vehicle or multi-platform   multi-transmission Universal fluid all of those  you need to read the fine print on the back and   see if it just says that it's compatible with  Mercon because if it is it's not any of these   it's only that old original 1987 Mercon I can't  even find a bottle of old Mercon or a can of it   anywhere I believe they were in plastic bottles  and everybody just threw him away when I got   done with them they're not for sale on eBay like  old metal cans being collected but anyway that's   Mercon that came out in 1987 and after the release  of that transmission fluid specification from 1989   through 1997 Ford released 1 2 3 4 5 6 7  8 9 10 11 12 13 more automatic transmissions   most of those were four-speed automatic Swift or  Coburg clutches the last two in 1997 were actually   five speeds Ford's first 5-speed automatic  transmissions okay another thing happened   in the late 1980s in 1989 Mobil 1 released their  very first synthetic automatic transmission fluid   from a group for PAO base oil so I have this can  of Mobil 1 engine oil this is not transmission   fluid I could not find a can of the original 1989  Mobil 1 full synthetic automatic transmission   fluid this is an old SF CC motor oil still in the  can original Mobil 1 synthetic motor oil but in   1989 that was the first year for a fully synthetic  automatic transmission fluid and so anything prior   to that was not full synthetic this used a group  for base oil which is a high-quality base oil in   the transmission fluid it was very expensive and  so that was the first year for that also sometime   in the 1990s there was a group two plus base oil  that was more highly refined less reactive it   had a viscosity index that was at the high range  of the group two base oils which made it a better   quality longer-lasting oil and then around 1993  from what I can find group three base oils were   produced for use in engine oils and eventually  have made their way into automatic transmission   fluids so later automatic transmission fluids have  been made from group 3 based oils and there's a   group 3 plus base oil that has viscosity  index is at the higher range of the group   3 specifications which are all higher quality  automatic transmission fluids so the late 80s   and end through the 90s were some important years  for base oils which is what automatic transmission   is made from and then we have anywhere from three  to twelve percent of the transmission fluid being   additives depending on what type of base oil it's  combined with and then in 1996 Ford updated their   fluid specifications and released the Mercon  V fluid Mercon V fluid now on the back here it   tells us on the Mercon V a label on the back  it's used in automatic and manual transmissions   and power steering systems previously serviced  by Mercon so they're saying you can use Mercon   V to replace the previous Mercon fluids but  you could not use the previous Mercon fluids   in place of Mercon V they don't they're not cross  interchangeable like that okay the Mercon V fluid   as I said came out in 1996 and after that Ford  released to other transmissions the 4R100   4-speed automatic in their trucks and SUVs and a  front wheel drive 4F27E in their front will   dry passenger cars it was this fluid specification  was revised again in 2002 and Ford released three   more automatic transmissions after that so that's  the Mercon V fluid in 2001 Ford released a brand   new transmission called the 5R100W this was a  heavy duty 5-speed automatic transmission they   called the torque shift that they put in their  heavier pickup trucks with the higher torque   engines and for that transmission they released  the Mercon SP fluid now the Mercon SP fluid if   we look on the back here it says do not use for  applications where Mercon V the previous fluid   was called for or the newer work on LV or the  Mercon ULV so this is only Mercon SP and it's   only for specific automatic transmissions made  by Ford so don't interchange the SP with other   fluids other previous or newer fluids alright  so that was 2001 in 2005 Ford had partnered   with General Motors to produce the Ford built 6F50  6-speed firm will drive transaxle General Motors   built the 6T70 front-wheel  drive transaxle and with that transmission Ford   released the Mercon LV for low viscosity fluid  General Motors released the Dexron six fluid   for their transmissions so on the back of the  Mercon LV bottle it tells us it's recommended   for transmissions where Mercon LV is specified  it does not give us any previous compatibility indication so Mercon LV only used in  transmissions the call former con LV and   after 2005 for 2006 and 2007 Ford released looks  like in 2006 two new automatic transmissions then   they revised the fluid specification a little  bit for the LV in 2007 and released three more   transmissions the 6F50 the front-wheel-drive  6-speed the 6R80 a rear-wheel-drive six-speed   that's in pickup trucks and Mustangs and then the  light duty 6f35 in 2009 they revised that fluid   specification again the Mercon LV in 2010 and  released the 6R140 a big heavy-duty six-speed   automatic transmission for their heavier pickup  trucks and that's also used in the HF-35 hybrid   and plug-in hybrid fusion and c-max electronic  continuously variable transmissions in the in   their hybrids okay then in 2014 Ford released the  Mercon ULV automatic transmission fluid now that   fluid specification was in preparation for the  Ford 10R80 automatic transmission sitting   here this 10-speed automatic I've got the guts  out of its standing up right here this 10R80   was a joint venture between General Motors and  Ford and Ford put this in their 2017 F-150 and   newer vehicles GM started using it in their Camaro  and pickup truck for put it in their Mustang as   well but here's the Ford ULV Mercon ULV fluid  here's the General Motors AC Delco ULV Dexron   ULV fluid this is a special fluid just for this  ten-speed ULV stands for ultra-low viscosity so   it tells us right on this bottle to only use  where Mercon ULV is called for and it has no   backward compatibility with previous fluids now  since this transmission came out General Motors   release some information on their ULV fluids  saying that before putting this fluid in the   vehicle that you need to shake it up to make sure  that all the additives haven't separated and that   they mix in with the fluid properly I haven't seen  that on the forward side but I suspect since it's   the same fluid and that fluid specification was  actually written by Ford here's the actual Ford   fluid specification right here WSS-M-C949-A is the ultra-low viscosity fluid specification   I suspect that that's and it got to be an issue  with the Ford fluids as well and so that's unique   because I've never heard of another fluid that you  needed to shake the bottle up before you poured it   in the vehicle to make sure that you're pouring  in a consistent mix of fluid and additives okay   so that was Ford's that is Ford's latest and last  fluid that I'm aware of here in let's see this is   February of 2019 now it's very important that you  put the proper fluid in your transmission if you   want that vehicle and that transmission to operate  like it did when it was new as I mentioned before   there are a lot of aftermarket fluids that claim  compatibility with different transmissions but   you need to read buyer beware on the back what  it's compatible with here's some mobile one of   synthetic ATF multi-vehicle formula it says right  on the front for GM and a wide variety of domestic   and imported vehicles but if we look on the back  panel here it tells us that it's recommended by   ExxonMobil not forward for use in it lists a bunch  of General Motors fluid specifications Ford Mercon   it doesn't say Mercon LV or SP or ULV Ford Mercon  the 1987 Ford Mercon specification as a matter of   fact there's an asterisk and it actually says  right on it not recommended for applications   requiring Ford Mercon LV SP or GM Dexron six so  even what some people I've talked to you think   is this magically wonderful mobile one-fluid  you still need to read the back panel don't pay   attention to this front panel and a lot it's not  really a lie but it's not the full truth either   you got to read the back here and understand  that when it says it's compatible with Mercon   it doesn't mean all of these Mercons, anything  that has the word Mercon on it it's just that 1987   Mercon and that's a little misleading and it's not  just mobile I've got or Riley I've got proline and   I've looked online and Pennzoil and Quaker State  and a whole bunch of well all other you go find   any type of automatic transmission fluid that's  not a licensed Ford product with a license   number it'll have a license number right on it  telling you like here's the license number right   here mark on ULV license number MULV160703 right  there and fine print if it doesn't have a Mercon   license number on it it's not approved by forward  for your vehicle and I don't care what the front   of the but the container says you need to read the  back there to make sure that you're getting the   right fluid for your Ford transmission in your  Ford vehicle and that's true for any automatic   transmission in any brand I highly recommend  using only factory fluids don't buy anything   that says multi-vehicle or multi-transmission  or universal fluid without making sure that it's   compatible with your vehicle and now I've yet  to see one that's compatible with these newer   fluids so unless you've got a really old vehicle  those old fluids which aren't even still aren't   even for it approved are you're just taking the  manufacturers word for that fluid that it's going   to work in your transmission and work properly  alright one last thing I wanted to show you it's a   Ford special service message and this is from 2013  it applies to 2013 through 2016 Taurus police and   Explorer police vehicles and it the title of this  document is top speed reduced after transmission   service so let me read this to you some 2013  through 2016 taurus police and explorer police   vehicles may exhibit reduced top speed after  a transmission fluid serviced with unapproved   fluid the use of unapproved fluid or improper  transmission fluid level can lead to reduced   vehicle performance and transmission damage and  is not covered under warranty use only Mercon   LV 2 transmission fluid in those vehicles fluid  exchange process when performing service intervals   check and adjust the transmission fluid level  only at normal operating temperatures which is   82 to 93 Celsius or 180 to 200 degrees Fahrenheit  the fluid adjustment procedure requires using the   appropriate service tool to verify proper fluid  temperature for optimum high-speed performance   adjust the fluid level to the top of the minimum  mark if the vehicle has a dipstick so here's one   where the top speed of the vehicle was reduced by  somebody changing the fluid to an improper fluid   all right well that is a look at Ford transmission  fluid history since 1941 with that original   Liqua-matic drive transmission in mercury's and  Lincoln's just a few. I hope you've enjoyed   this in the next episode we will look at Chrysler  and Mopar automatic transmission fluids and then   the episode after that will be Toyota automatic  transmission fluids thank you for watching

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Length: 49min 22sec (2962 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 08 2019

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