Bg products...tranny

[Jdoc]

Ok, so at every service I use BG products additive (MOA and the EPR ) on my 5.7 hemi followed by full synthetic. What are some thoughts on using the bg transmission products? one shop said he has the bg equipment to flush tranny. I'm not real keen on using that in my 8HP70 transmission? I was going to change pan/filter kit , but use the redline D6 ATF fluid. Since I changed all my differential fluid to redline a month or so ago. Been meaning to do this service for over 10,000mi. But just haven't gotten to it yet. I currently have 113,000mi and need all plugs as well . Little by little I'm getting things done.

 

[Burla]

I wouldn't put **** in that tranny, you can't make whatever fluid you will put back better. redline or mopar pao, bg will be less then.

As for bgmoa, calcium gets denatured during a interval. That is why when you get a uoa you get a huge calcium reading, but like zero tbn for a long interval. BGMOA is basically a calcium additive, to use it most effectively you may want to consider adding past the half way point of an oil interval instead at the begging, and only one can, that isn't something you want to dump in lots of. It's actually not a bad product.

 

[Burla]

Ok, so at every service I use BG products additive (MOA and the EPR ) on my 5.7 hemi followed by full synthetic. What are some thoughts on using the bg transmission products? one shop said he has the bg equipment to flush tranny. I'm not real keen on using that in my 8HP70 transmission? I was going to change pan/filter kit , but use the redline D6 ATF fluid. Since I changed all my differential fluid to redline a month or so ago. Been meaning to do this service for over 10,000mi. But just haven't gotten to it yet. I currently have 113,000mi and need all plugs as well . Little by little I'm getting things done.

You put that other stuff in your oil? This is the msds EPR, I wouldn't put that in my oil.

Distillates (petroleum), hydrotreated light paraffinic 30 - 60%
cyclohexanone 15 - 40%
(propyloxy)ethanol 5 - 10%
methylpentan-2-ol 1 -5%

 

[Jdoc]

The epr is only to simply flush before the drain to loosen any carbon varnishes etc...

 

[Burla]

gotcha, whew

 

[Jdoc]

However I do use the BG MOA additive.

 

[joshuaeb09]

Honestly most BG stuff is pretty meh. It wont blow your stuff up, but for the price there is usually something better readily available. It really caught on due to the spiff that gets kicked back for selling a can really incentivizing service guys to push it. I also wouldn't touch an 8HP70 with a flush machine or put anything BG in it. As Burla said Redline D6 or OE (ZF Lifeguard Fluid).

 

[Casper]

For what its worth, I have the 6-spd. At 76K I had the full tranny and torque converter drain/BG Flush.
It corrected a couple of funky shifting issues that had developed when I had to drive an hour in stop and go each way for about 6 months that a battery reset would not fix (periodic sharp down shift from 4-2 in traffic, difficult to get a down shift when accelerating from under 35 mph during stop and go, clutch rebound during up shift under load from 2 or 3 into 4).

All are gone, and it now drives like it did when new. I'm not sure if BG was helpful or incidental, but exchanging all 16 qts of fluid made a huge difference.

 

[Burla]

You still have the 2012? Then you have atf with paper filters, but that guy has Mopar PAO and a synthetic filtering system. ATF is vulnerable to degrading and getting dirty and causing lil shifting symptoms, more so then the 8 speed system. Not saying the flush isn't a bad idea one way or another, just pointing out the difference.