Well, I use automatic transmission fluid in mine, so don't feel too bad.
Much better than paying four or five bucks a bottle for that Armstrong
oil.
Jim Ruwaldt
'72 TR6 CC79338U
Bloomington, IN
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Pete & Aprille Chadwell wrote:
> Scott and other interested parties:
>
> OK, I'm gonna catch Hell for this, but I run 90 WT gear oil in my levers!!
> It started out as an experiment, and please... I'm not recommending it.
> Frankly, the main reason I did it was because I was fitting old, presumable
> worn out levers from a parts car and wanted to try to compensate for the
> wear with thicker oil. Now, I know this'll probably cause these things to
> leak prematurely, or something, but... why would that be any different?
> They're SUPPOSED to leak, right? Everything else on my car leaks, so why
> not the shocks, too!?? At any rate, it seems to work pretty well,
> actually. I would not dump 90 WT in brand new levers, though. I must also
> add, in my defense, that at the time (this was 8 years or so ago) I did not
> have a marvelous resource like this list to submit questions to people who
> know better. So, i had to try it out myself. They actually don't leak
> much at all... In fact, the gooey coating that has built up on the shock
> bodies is probably more from the differential spraying oil than from the
> shocks.
>
> I would love to hear the flames, though...
>
> Pete Chadwell
> 1973 TR6 CF10732
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