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Hello fellows:
Recently, I put a large container of Techron in the gas tank of my nearly 20 year old 760T and it made for a noticiable improvement despite a lot of preventive maintenance as per 700/900 FAQ and clean golden to brown/gray Bosch platinum spark plug tips. So I thought perhaps I should put ARx in the engine oil although the car has run nothing but Mobil 1 10W-30 with Mann filters for four or five years, again on the recommendation of Steve. Thanks for the recommendation of mineral oil with ARx, I had thought I would put it in with the Mobil 1 in the engine. I do not know how much crud will come out because Mobil 1 twice a year seems to keep the engine clean, as far as I can see. ARx might do wonders for piston rings and other parts I cannot see. Poolman, the AT in the 960 is like new. As far as I can tell, the PNP shorted (due to gray grease I found inside?), AT went into limp mode (fourth gear in Drive and third gear in Low). This overheated the fluid and set the orange arrow flashing during 15 minutes it took me to get home. An ovehaul of the PNP (as per 700/900 FAQ) and repacking with dialectric grease together with a flush with Mobil 1 ATF (again, as per 700/900 FAQ) and an in-line Magnefine filter from Emerging Enterprises saved me $6,000 and at least two months without use of the car. BTW, Darrell at Emerging Enterprises is a NICE guy. PO had put in a brand new Volvo AT from Sweden a month before I bought the car. PO gave me all maintenance and repair receipts from Volvo dealer (around $12,000 in a few months since 50,000 mile warranty had expired). ATF then overheated and set the orange arrow flashing two or three times as soon as I had the car. Volvo dealer exceeded its usual incompetence and thievery. That brought me to Brickboard, Warren Bain, Tom Irwin and Steve Ringlee. As per their advise and 700/900 FAQ, I flushed with Mobil 1 ATF and put in a Volvo ATF cooler. AT ran OK for 15,000 miles until the episode a few months ago, but it feels new again. Best regards to all.
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