where can I buy a 5 gallon bucket of MTX fluid for the 6 speed?

[Hemmen1]

need Mtx fluid for the 6 speed

 

[Dane]

I bought a 5 gal bucket from my local Texaco dist for $54 two years ago. Some other TDR members tried with mixed results from other dists. It looks like the merger of Texaco has complicated things because I tried to search for the 800# I used and could not find it on the Texaco.com site. It looks like the 1874 MTX Synchromesh Transmission fluid is being marketed by - Equilon Enterprises. I did find this link-



http://www.equivatexacomsds.com/



Use the search engine and search for "1874" and you'll get the MSDS.



UPDATE-



I found this-

http://thegenesisnetwork.equilon.com/genesis/prodinfopdf/out/MTX FLUID.pdf



I tried the 800# and it looks like it's active. Remember that they are selling wholsale, so you may need to "act" a little on the phone when you get the local wholesaler phone# in your area

 

[FDNYMOPARGUY]

I got it from the dealer - $50 for 7 quarts(I bought 2 extra for the fastcoolers). The price included tax at 8. 5%. They had it in stock.

 

[merryman]

My Texaco distributor had it on the shelf; under $60. for the five gallon pail------ and thats in a city of under 20K people.

Vaughn

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Forget MTX, think RedLine Synthetics

Hemmen1, instead of the MTX why not go for RedLines MTL? (Manual Trans Lube). This is fully synthetic proper-weight-for-6-speed gear oil, for $7-8 a quart. I am going to this lube on my next change.



Vaughn

 

[Sixspeed]

How often should you change the oil.



Les

 

[Dane]

Les,

I did my 1st change at 10K and it really smoothed out the shifting. Now it's every 30K for the life of the transmission.