Gearbox oil - Which would you choose right now?

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Gearbox oil - Which would you choose right now?

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Hi chaps,

If you were replacing gearbox oil (50B Box - as in all GU Manuals, incl 4.2D), which gearbox oil would you purchase ? I have the 4.2D, which is well known for reverberation noise at low RPM as a result of harmonic resonance, so i'm not keen on anything with light viscosity,as this would obviously accentuate the noise.

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Castrol GL4 80W-90 - Gearbox
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Post by Michael »

Russ,

I use 75W90 GL4 for the gearbox and transfer case
80W90 GL5 for the front and rear diffs, think I also have used EP90 as well......dont think it makes a differance.

I must say that since I started using 75W90 for the gearbox, my gear shifts have been allot better, specially when its cold in the morning. It is also a full synthetic one, but thats only because its the only one I could find.....they are very scarse

But on the gearbox noise at low rpm and idle there was no change
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Post by Tiny Howarth »

This is what I have been using since 2015 Sept and no problems

Gearbox and transfer case API GL4 Castrol Syntrans Multivehicle 75W-90 (Synthetic)
Front and rear diffs API GL5 Castrol diff
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Michael wrote:Russ,

I use 75W90 GL4 for the gearbox and transfer case
80W90 GL5 for the front and rear diffs, think I also have used EP90 as well......dont think it makes a differance.

I must say that since I started using 75W90 for the gearbox, my gear shifts have been allot better, specially when its cold in the morning. It is also a full synthetic one, but thats only because its the only one I could find.....they are very scarse

But on the gearbox noise at low rpm and idle there was no change
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Fanus, jy gooi hom tot hy uit loop.....dan is hy presies vol :lol:
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I added 1liter atf to my gearbox and 500ml atv to my transferbox and it works great now sincro works better....and then fill up with gl4 75w90
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Midas by ons hou nie GL4 75w90 ratkas olie aan nie... is daar nie 'n online shop waar mens olies kan koop nie?
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Which would be better: Castrol Manual GL-4 75W-90 or Castrol Syntrans T 75W-90 ?

http://www.salube.co.za/downloads/tds/m ... 75w-90.pdf
http://www.salube.co.za/downloads/tds/s ... 75w-90.pdf
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Post by Wilkie »

dis wat ek in Patrol het....!!!! die Manual maar jy kan ook die synth een gebruik
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SJC wrote:Midas by ons hou nie GL4 75w90 ratkas olie aan nie... is daar nie 'n online shop waar mens olies kan koop nie?
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