The purpose of the detergent is to keep the crud from engine operation
in suspension so it can be filtered and drained out of the engine. There
is none of that in the gearbox, so detergent is unnecessary.
Non-detergent is not always easy to find, and MG did not specify
non-detergent, so one must assume that MG believed the gearbox would be
happy with either oil.
Bob
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:13:26 -0400 "James Nazarian"
<james.nazarian@gmail.com> writes:
> I think that the manual specs non detergent oil. Is this really
> necessary
> or will a standard oil do? So far it seems that most people are
> just
> running standard oil, but I thought I'd ask.
>
> james
_______________________________________________
Edit your replies
Mgs@autox.team.net
http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/mgs
|