"alemen@pop.ftconnect.com" wrote:
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> Total capacity I seem to remember was 1 1/4 pints (US). I use EP90
> GL5 or whatever it is but it's not supposed to contain phosphorous
> as that eats the copper seals (or something to that effect).
Half right-- but it's GL5 that destroys the bronze bits, so you
want to use an oil marked GL4 on the bottle.
I accidentally filled my diff with Redline 75w90, which is a GL5
formulation, and let it sit for a week before I realized what I'd
done. Draining it out, there were zillions of tiny golden
specks-- and now my shims are a little bit thinner, I guess.
Use GL4. (There's something informally called GL5.1, which is
supposedly a GL5 that's safe for bronze... can anyone out there
enlighten us??)
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