Change oil soon (& then some)

[Ron Schroeder]

At 10:24 PM 5/29/01 -0400, you wrote:
<snip>
>This can also happen in aluminum manual transmission
>gearboxes when the required ATF has been unknowingly
>replaced with traditional gear oil.
>
>Shannen

This more often happens by puting in a GL-5 oil in a tranny that needs a
GL-4 oil.  GL-5 is too slippery for the syncros due to too much EP
modifiers.  The lube places think that they are doing you a favor by puting
in the "higher grade" oil.

Ron Schroeder
WD8CDH
E. E. S.
wd8cdh at bnl.gov
rjs at bnl.gov
ron at 112motors.com
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