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RE: gear oil question/warning/ more Qs

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Subject: RE: gear oil question/warning/ more Qs
From: "Gordon Glasgow" <gsglasgow@attbi.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:20:49 -0800
It's something that develops as you get older. It lubricates sounds so that they
go in one ear and out the other more easily.

Marriage has been rumored to accelerate it's production, but there is no
scientific proof of this.  ;-)

Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Adam Bradley
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:31 PM
> To: Geegc@aol.com; Ofarrell.Fergus@hitco.com
> Cc: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: gear oil question/warning/ more Qs
>
>
> What is ear oil?
>
>
> --- Geegc@aol.com wrote:
> > So you think MT 90 is a bad idea, and recommend MTL, or just stay
> > with
> > regular ear oil?  If so, what weight?  The Chilton recommends 140 for
> > 32 to
> > 90 degrees, 90 for cooler temps.  In LA, it is never that cold.
> >
> > How is the MT 90 working in the diff?  Any leakage?  What are you
> > using in
> > the steering box?
> >
> > Gary C
> >
> > In a message dated 2/11/02 4:55:45 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > Ofarrell.Fergus@hitco.com writes:
> >
> >
> > > Hey Gary C,
> > > you asked about gear oils, and the manual said 140W, and there was
> > a
> > > RedLine
> > > answer, and I'm a little late but 'beware'.  Read the Red Line site
> > tech
> > > info, because some of those RL synthetics are incompatible with
> > elderly
> > > synchro materials. You want MTL, (thanks for the info, Victor and
> > Craig
> > > Carter) and there is one other but I can't remember its' name.  I
> > bought
> > > MT90 and then found it was only to be used in my diff.  (oh, and
> > the
> > > RedLine
> > > Oil website distributors list is a pile of @#$%.  I think I got
> > mine at
> > > Balboa Auto Parts on the corner of Devonshire/Balboa)
> > > Also, since my trans seals won't hold synthetic, (too thin) I
> > thought I'd
> > > be
> > > real clever and put in 140W, and now when I drive the first 2 miles
> > is
> > > second gear synchro grind zone, until the oil heat/thins up.  Now I
> > gotta
> > > drain and go back to 75-90W.  You don't wanna know what your
> > forearms feel
> > > like after pumping 4.6 pints of 140W thru a tube.   Fergus O, 69
> > 2000,
> > > HB,CA.
> >
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