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Re: lubrication

To: DGreimel@aol.com, morgans@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: lubrication
From: TrmpetDave@aol.com
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:41:42 EDT
In a message dated 8/26/99 2:50:26 AM, DGreimel writes:

<< Perhaps my memory is failing but it sure seems to me that 30wt oil was the 
factory recommendation for the Moss box in the early 60`s.  90wt definitely 
defeats the synchros which are, after all, little clutches and makes them 
hard to shift.  Most british boxes used 30wt which at the time seemed odd to 
me.  I had serviced US cars prior to working on imports and only Chrysler 
used lighter oils, in some cases ATF.
Don >>

My '71 +8 owner's manual recommends 90W gear oil for the gear box.

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