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Re: diff oil filler

To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: diff oil filler
From: "Gary Hutton" <hutton@evansville.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:57:37 -0500
ARRGH!!  -- Just filled my diff with GL-5; how do you get it back out -
there doesn't seem to be a drain plug.  Of course if I just wait a month
it will probably all leak out!
Any input will be appreciated.

Gary Hutton
Indiana, US
76 Spit 1500

----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Frank <frank@zk3.dec.com>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: diff oil filler


>
> "alemen@pop.ftconnect.com" wrote:
> >
> > Total capacity I seem to remember was 1 1/4 pints (US). I use EP90
> > GL5 or whatever it is but it's not supposed to contain phosphorous
> > as that eats the copper seals (or something to that effect).
>
> Half right-- but it's GL5 that destroys the bronze bits, so you
> want to use an oil marked GL4 on the bottle.
>
> I accidentally filled my diff with Redline 75w90, which is a GL5
> formulation, and let it sit for a week before I realized what I'd
> done.  Draining it out, there were zillions of tiny golden
> specks-- and now my shims are a little bit thinner, I guess.
>
> Use GL4.  (There's something informally called GL5.1, which is 
> supposedly a GL5 that's safe for bronze... can anyone out there
> enlighten us??)
>
> --
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