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Re: [TR] TR3 gearbox oil leak

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Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 gearbox oil leak
From: "Randall" <TR3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:33:35 -0800
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> ..before I get blasted.. a little history.. back in the seventies 
> Triumphs were experiencing many gear box failures.

Was that with TR6 or TR7?

> They sent  
> a factory 
> rep to our shop (for one).. turns out the change to 80-90 
> gear lube was 
> the culprit...

That's interesting, since supposedly they switched to recommending gear oil for 
exactly the same reason (but about 15 years
earlier).

As far as I know, they never stopped officially recommending gear oil for the 
TR6 gearbox.  If it really caused such severe
problems, you'd think they'd fix that in the 15 or so years (and 5 different 
car models) that they kept recommending gear oil.

-- Randall  


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