[Mgs] Overdrive oil

[Rick Lindsay]

No flares.  You are right.  In fact, multi-viscosity
oils lubricate WORSE than single grade oil.  The
additives that provide the multi-vis effect (with
heat) is NOT a lubricant.

-rick
--- Max Heim <max_heim at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Engine oil. Most people will tell you 20w50. I am
> using 30wt in that same
> transmission, on the theory that multigrade is
> irrelevant to a transmission,
> and breaks down faster (how often do you change your
> transmission oil?). It
> probably really doesn't matter so long as you don't
> use synthetic, and you
> don't use 80/90 wt gear oil.
> 
> But this question seems to have religious overtones,
> so I am preparing for
> flames...
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
> 
> 
> on 8/8/07 2:10 PM, James Nazarian at
> james.nazarian at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > A friend of mine has an '80 MGB with overdrive. 
> What oil should he put in
> > the transmission and overdrive?
> >  
> > thanks,
> > James
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