RE: TR7/8 5 speed gearbox oil

[Dean_Zywicki%NIHDCRT.BITNET@CU.NIH.GOV]

|Date: 6-20-93  12:02am
|From: Dean Zywicki:dcrt:nih
|  To: {british-cars@autox.team.net}:BITNET
|Subj: RE: TR7/8 5 speed gearbox oil
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jim writes:

>80W-90 will NOT work!  I ruined my gearbox by topping up with 80W-90.
>-->  gear pump failed, gearbox didn't get lubed properly, 2nd
>goes, 3rd starts to go, I get the car home pronto and had to rebuild
>my box MUCH sooner than I'd expected.  :-(

  I must be missing something here: why does a 5 speed manual trans.
need a gear oil pump?  The reason I ask is that I was planning on
putting Redline MTL 90w in my midget (1500) gearbox.  I know that 'box
doesn't have a gear oil pump, but will the heavy oil hurt it ?



   Dean