Date:         Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:16:52 -0400
Reply-To:     Tom Buese <tantonbz@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Tom Buese <tantonbz@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Manual Tranny Oil
Comments: To: Gene P <olgreywoof@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <4F62C02D.9080607@gmail.com>
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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
>



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Tom Buese