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| mattillac |
 Nov 29 2004, 06:00 PM
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robots!  Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: 27-October 04 From: vallejo,ca Member No.: 3,020  |
seems like the preffered gear oil of 914club is swepco 901. i have a few quarts of 75/90 redline gear oil left over from when i had my 240z. any thoughts on this stuff in the porsche tranny?
in the past: redline + hard to shift tranny = nice smooth tranny ...well at least for a while. i've used redline before to cover up some tranny problems i just didn't feel like fixing. but these were junkyard 240z and rx7 trans. not my nice 914 tranny. opinions??? recommended gear oil weights??? |
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| slivel |
Nov 30 2004, 01:10 PM
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Old car....... older driver Group: Members Posts: 510 Joined: 10-July 04 From: San Diego Member No.: 2,332 Region Association: Southern California |
If you want to use Redline gear oil in a 901, I recommend mixing it at about 50-50 ratio, the 75-90 stuff with Redlines MT 90. Reason is the 75-90 is rated GL5 and by itself is too slippery for the synchros causing gear clash when shifting. The MT 90 is GL4 rated and seems to provide enough friction to make the synchros happy. I've run Swepco, Redline and Mobil 1 in my box. Right now I've got Mobil 1 in. If you already have some 75-90 buy a quart or two of MT90 and try it. Worst case is you don't like the way it shifts and you drain and change it to something else.
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mattillac redline gear oil Nov 29 2004, 06:00 PM
Red-Beard It should work fine. I use Mobil 1. Jake uses Mobi... Nov 29 2004, 10:12 PM LvSteveH Redline is a great product, but it doesn't all... Nov 29 2004, 10:26 PM mattillac thanks guys. i guess i'll try it out and go fr... Nov 30 2004, 12:39 PM jwalters :o I had really bad results with the redline stuf... Nov 30 2004, 12:54 PM mattillac as far as i can tell, the tranny is good. had some... Nov 30 2004, 01:10 PM mattillac Howard R I have been using Neo until a week or so ago. All... Nov 30 2004, 01:28 PM
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