Terry, In the "olden days" 3 speed manuals in Fords used engine oil in them as per manufacturers specs. A dim wit "mechanic" I used for a very short time claimed this was crap & proceeded to use SAE 90. Cost me 2 gearboxes in very short time. Result was the circlip on the end of the main shaft used to snap the end of the spline. All I can put it down to was the heavy oil used to make it very hard if not impossible at times to change gears. Extra force used obviously damaged the weak point. New BW T5 5 speeds use auto trans fluid. Works OK.
Ken. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:42 PM Subject: RE: 81 4speed bluey gearbox oil > Ryan, > I didn't pick that you have a BW box and to be honest I have no idea why the > book says SAE30. That grade must be used in a BW box for a very good reason, > unbeknown to me what that is, or even likely to be, so I can't see why VMX80 > would be detrimental to it. > > regards > Terry (any ideas Errol?) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ryan Chalmers > Sent: Monday, 10 November 2003 10:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: 81 4speed bluey gearbox oil > > > Terry Does that mean vmx80 should be ok? It recomends hipoy 80 or 90 for > the Jap spec 5 speed so I was just unsure what to put in the BW 4 speed. > Thanks > Ryan > > > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
