>From: Peter Zaborski <peterz@merak.com>
>Reply-To: Peter Zaborski <peterz@merak.com>
>To: "'TR6 List'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Subject: synthetic gear oil
>Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 17:28:39 -0600
>
>Well no one has brought this up for about 4 months so maybe it's my turn...
>
>I have decided to try synthetic oil in my diff and gearbox (76 TR6 with
>J-type OD). Has anyone done this? My thoughts were to use Redline MTL --
>I'm
>pretty sure it will be fine in the diff but have no idea how it affects the
>OD. If anyone has been down this road, I'd like to hear about it please.
I couldn't tell the diff performance-wise... IMHO when you're out
buying the synthetic slippum, get a large baking pan and a plastic
gallon jug too. so you can recycle the lube as it leaks out...:)
I am constanlt amazed at the migrating properites of synthetic
oils... If you have a tiny leak with regular petroleum, it becomes
more, shall we say, "vigorous" with synthetics.
Last fall I tried Mobil synthetic gear oil in the tranny and
diff... I think most is on the garage floor, now. I still use
Mobil 1 in the engine. It leaks out too but that's just something
I live with.
Besides with my email sig line, I do have a reputation to maintain.
Greg Petrolati
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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