Below is a snippet of Daarryl's wisdom on the matter <snip> Same with Redline...It is slippery and won't cause much of a real world problem from what I have seen...The difference from MTL & MT90 is the Vanaogn ring & pinion slide on each other during operation and need a bit more cushion (long chain molecules in MT90)to keep wear down vs the Jetta style tranny's which use straighter cut gears and use MTL. </snip> Cheers, Doug
Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU> Sent by: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> 09/23/2002 12:18 PM Please respond to Matthew Pollard
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM cc: Subject: Re: Redline gear lube
why mtl over mt-90. I thouhg it had to do with the inner working and hidden mechanisms of the tranny. According to darrel christensen of AA transaxles, you want mt-90 due to the angle of the spinning gears (verticle or horizontal). I run mt-90 in my syncro tranny and front diff. matthew 86 syncro westy i4 On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Bob Stevens wrote: > I'm switching my '87 Syncro Westy manual also Pat, to MTL. That has been > recommended by several people to me from this list. |
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