You need GL-4 or MIL-2105 spec gear oil - if it doesn't say GL4 it isn't! RedLine makes GL4 synthetic - never used it myself as I change my oil once a year. I used Texico GL-4.
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-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf Of Brian Jones Sent: November 2, 2000 7:24 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: synthetic gearlube questions
hi all- getting ready to change the gearlube in the urabus- if you go with a synthetic like mobile one, does it have to be rated gl4- or by virtue of it being a synthetic,is the gl4-gl5 universal synthetic ok to run??? thanks all, Brian |
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