You might be better off finding a good low mileage used one
Dayton
>From: J Constantino <jjcon2@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: J Constantino <jjcon2@yahoo.com>
>To: frank@zk3.dec.com
>CC: spitfires@autox.team.net
>Subject: GL5 project setback
>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:29:10 -0700 (PDT)
>
>At this point in the story Charlie Brown would go
>
>AAAUUUUUGGGHHHHHH!!!!
>
>When I rebuilt my transmission, I knew not to put GL5
>in it, so I didn't. But that doesn't mean I didn't
>fill my diff with it before I put it back under the
>car cause I had a jug of it lying around the garage...
>
>
>a year and a half ago....oops.
>
>I've been doing paint and body work since then and
>didn't even crawl under to see if I have a drain plug,
>cause a year and a half or a year and a half and a few
>more days won't really make much DIFF-erence.
>
>Anyone know any reputable Diff rebuilders and How much
>does it cost to rebuild one anyway...
>
>
>From: Douglas Frank frank@zk3.dec.com
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:19:52 -0400
>Subject: Re: diff oil filler
>
>
>
>"alemen@pop.ftconnect.com" wrote:
> >
> > 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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>unanswerable.
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>
>
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