Greetings,
I'm a new member. I leaned of this site from threads posted at the Naked Goldwing Club (NGW). At NGW, there are periodic discussion regarding the merits of ATF as a fork oil. Early Goldwing manuals state that ATF is to be used in the forks. However, there have been comments at NGW about the dangers of using 'modern day' ATF with Mercon as it contains microscopic metal particles that, supposedly, are required for today's automatic transmissions. The suggestion is to use only ATF Type F which does not contain such particles.
I'm trying to validate this comment and determine if, in fact, modern ATF Mercon (or Dexron) actually contains minute amounts of metal.
Thank you in advance for any information you may have.
I'm a new member. I leaned of this site from threads posted at the Naked Goldwing Club (NGW). At NGW, there are periodic discussion regarding the merits of ATF as a fork oil. Early Goldwing manuals state that ATF is to be used in the forks. However, there have been comments at NGW about the dangers of using 'modern day' ATF with Mercon as it contains microscopic metal particles that, supposedly, are required for today's automatic transmissions. The suggestion is to use only ATF Type F which does not contain such particles.
I'm trying to validate this comment and determine if, in fact, modern ATF Mercon (or Dexron) actually contains minute amounts of metal.
Thank you in advance for any information you may have.