It felt like little robots had gone into the transmission and lubed up the necessary gears because third gear became buttery smooth. I had a hard time believing that changing the fluid would make that much of a difference. Anyways, after replacing all fluids, the biggest noticeable difference was my clutch fluid(replaced with Amsoil Dot3 Brake Fluid) which came out a nasty brown color and looked like it had been there for the life of the car, that brought the spring back into the clutch, and my transmission. I had been using Amsoil Motor Oil for my previous and current car and I had no complaints so I figured with no maintenance schedule for when previous fluids had been changed, it would be a good idea to replace all the fluids with Amsoil fluids, (which I did, except for the Power Steering Fluid which Honda/Acura are very specific about using their own brand. This seemed to work for a bit but it started to catch and stick after a while. I changed it with Honda MTF about 3,000 miles later after it had developed a sticky third gear( basically it would catch when trying to put it into third gear). ![]() It had no maintenance records for when the transmission fluid had been previously changed. I bought my RSX with about 83,000 miles on it.
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