I vote for the tuner.......

 

Me too but I'm a bit short on cash right now after all this...

 

not too bad..........he did my softplugs 2 months before my 2nd band broke for $600....

Did he mention the fluid he used?

Too bad you have a '96.....I'd let ya borrow my flashpaq for a week....

drive it like you stole it for the next 12 months..

 

He said mercon 6 equiviant? but said He added a modifier so?... I asked about the whole ATF+4 thing and he said when it come to the older fords dodges or chevys they dont need synthetics and theres nothing special in the design to require special ATF fluid? I dunno the stuff I have is pink? I asked what to use if I needed to add more and he said any regular ATF fluid would be fine?
This has me confused.... Also has me wondering how much truth there is or isnt to these ATF fluids being so different? He did say it makes a big difference on some of the new trannies due to newer technology so..
It does shift nice and smooth now but I havent done much driving due to it needing an inspection.
He only replaced one softplug that I know for sure...but I noticed he changed my oil filter because I had just changed the oil and filter prior to all this and used a different brand so?
I'm happy to have no leaks as of now except a bunch of exhaust leaks from unrelated issue of a rusted out pipe from headers to the cat.. It never ends....sigh.

 

I've heard the same thing regarding increased line pressure in the transmission as I have about shift kits. I've been running an SC tuner for five years now and it firms up the shifts rather nicely by virtue of increased line pressure and I've cut torque management down 88% for well over a year now, no problems yet...