Changing tranny fluid

[Bob Lawrence]

Thanks Greg for your info...seems like the way to go..gotta thunk
about it...thanks again.
Bob

> Bob, I just had a trans service at the Allison dealer it was less
> than $180.00 for that part of the service. I opted to use the oil-
> oil because it would be more affordable to drop the pan and change
> every 20 thousand miles or with every other engine oil change. I
> like the idea of looking at the filter and pan every 20. The
second
> reason I did not take the synthetic oil was I think it will take 3
or
> 4 changes to evacuate the trans of oil-oil ( t-converter, valve
> bodies). Third reason is I tend to be cheap (actually no. 1).
Reason
> four is I dont have a need to push the bus past the limits of oil-
oil
> temp stress warnings (if stress causes heat in oil-oil and less
heat
> in syn-oil, how will I know to back off the stress).
>
> Gregory O'Connor
> cheap and trying to avoid stress
>