Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:38:19 -0400
Reply-To: Tom Buese <tantonbz@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Tom Buese <tantonbz@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Manual Tranny Oil
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Yep, Paragon is where I got mine. $48/gal + $12 shipping to Utah.
Swepco is cheap compared to some Porsche racing oils, as some P car owners
think the more $$$ the merrier? LOL!
Kendall dino gear oil, $4.30/qt.
YMMV,
Mr. BZ-how bout them tires!
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Yeah, that's the problem with Swepco......finding it locally. Nobody in
> all of northeast Florida
> sells the Swepco. Even the local "premier" Porsche dealer here, actually
> famous for their race team
> (Brumos), doesn't use Swepco.
>
> I have to buy it online. Paragon in Cali seems to have the best price for
> the 201 at $47.95 plus much
> shipping to the east coast.
>
> Anthony
> '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tom Buese <tantonbz@GMAIL.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 8:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Manual Tranny Oil
>
> Have you changed your tranny oil in the 1000 miles since the rebuild? If
> not, maybe now is the time to get off Redline?
> Daryl told moi to change my oil after 1000 miles+- of his rebuild, which I
> did from cheap Kendall dino to Swepco 201 after consulting w/ "gears" &
> Daryl. Had to order the Swepco online unless you wanna get from some
> snooty Porsche racing place, but Detlef seems to likee.
> That said, tranny needs 5 qts, Swepco came in 1 gal jugs, so needed 2 gals
> @ $60/ea to top off tranny.
>
> As usual,
>
> YMMV,
>
> Mr. BZ-oiloiloil, better than tirestirestires?
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Gene P <olgreywoof@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Richard Koerner wrote:
> >
> > "Redline no longer recommends their products for hypoid gears, making it
> > completely unsuitable for Vanagon/T3 transaxles..."
> >
> > "The fact that Redline changed their formulation on the MT-90 synthetic
> > oil was recently confirmed..."
> >
> > I envy your timing Richard (coming up 2 years this summer) but I just
> > changed mine in October. If this 'reformulation' is confirmed, does
> anyone
> > know when it occurred? And does this mean change to something else next
> > time, or drain the stuff now because I'm harming my trans?
> >
> > Rich, Daryl, anyone?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > GeneP
> > 87 Hardhat Wolf (stock)
> > 23K on rebuilt trans, maybe 1K on MT-90
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Tom Buese
>
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Tom Buese
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