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Re: TR O/D Gearbox Oil

To: doug@dsg128.nad.ford.com, Johnmowog@aol.com, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: TR O/D Gearbox Oil
From: "TeriAnn Wakeman" <twakeman@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 10:37:11 -0700
In message <9506070716.ZM6251@dsg128> "Doug Mitchell" writes:
> John,
> 
> If you are so bitter towards BL, why don't you get rid of your BL
> product? ;)
> 
> That being said, regarding your comments on the use of engine oil
> in ODs, my Spit manual states to use 90 weight. After having my
> OD rebuilt over the winter, (21 years, 108K miles) I asked the
> mechanic who did the work what he recommended to use. I was asking
> because I had read an article supplied by another netter and printed
> by Laycock. The article said to use 30-50 weight oil in the OD.
> The transmissions in TRs, not MGs, must have 80-90 gear oil. Because
> of the common oil in the box/OD, it follows that you must use the
> 80-90 in the OD.
> 
> Doug Mitchell

Hmm the owners manual of both my TR3A and my '68 MGB (Pre-BL) tells me to use 
engine oil and not to add oil additives.  Both cars have overdrive 
transmissions.


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