Repeat after me: "I will not put "gear oil" in my VW transaxle. I will put Redline MTL in my VW transaxle." Catchy, huh?
Most "gear oils" will be 80W90 or 75W90 and they will have an EP (extreme pressure) additive level of GL-5. VW manual transaxles need GL-4, which is only half the additive concentration. More is definitely not better as EP additives will attack the synchros and bearings. GL-5 and GL-6 were developed for the hypoid gears found in every rear wheel drive diff because of the high sliding loads between the gear teeth. MTL has a slightly lower viscosity to make shifting easier and faster, the right additive concentration and the right friction modifiers so your synchros can engage as God intended. Use MTL, you will never regret it. Darron Schneider 89 Jetta GLI 16V -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:36:15 -0700 From: "Brice Osborne" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Tranny Drain plug? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_005B_01C10A49.219FDDA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've only used 2 quarts even and have not blown my tranny yet. As far as the drain plug, it is the 17mm (I think) hex wrench and it is on the bottom of the trans and on the side- you have to take off the driver's side front wheel. It is a hard bolt to miss... Brice -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Denis Palmans Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 5:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Tranny Drain plug? Where is the drain plug located? the bently seems to make absolutly no referance to it, only the plug to fill the tranny up. Is this the one right under the final drive, on the bottom and back of the tranny? and then to fill the tranny back up i use the hole on the side, and just fill it till it oozes out ('90 car so i dont need to use the speedo hole right?). and finaly do i need 2 quarts exactly of gear oil? or is it a tiny bit over 2 quarts? i dont really want to buy 3 quarts of this stuff if i'm not going to be using alot of the 3'rd quart. thanks. <<snipped HTML crap>> _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
