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Re: [Spridgets] Motor Oil in the Gear Box

To: "David Riker" <davriker@nwi.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Motor Oil in the Gear Box
From: "Dean Hedin" <dlh2001@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:31:13 -0400
It's a little perplexing...

On one hand the original Datsum manual specifies 80W-90 or even the heavier
140wt for higher temperatures as Mike indicated

But we observe that the notchy shift goes away as the tranny wams up.
This seems to imply that a overall thinner gear oil would be prefered,
such as the multi-weight 75w90 that is suggested by Rivergate and others.

It's contradictory, I mean that I would have thought  that a thicker gear oil 
would 
help the action of the sychros, but that appears not to be the case.

I'd like to believe that I could put in a API-GL4 lube and my notchy shift would
magically disappear, but somehow I don't think that will happen.

Unless of course, someone else out there had a notchy shift and it went away 
when they
swaped in Redline MT-90 or something similiar.
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