Engine and gearbox oils · Aussieveedubbers

Dazz · 17 Sep 2013, 11:38 pm

What oils are commonly used in the engine and box?

Dazz · 18 Sep 2013, 12:38 pm

Come on, someone has to have changed their
Oil before.

Do I use 20W50 and what weight gear oil in the box

BiX · 18 Sep 2013, 1:30 pm

There are a heap of threads on here about what oil to use and its a good debate with no clear winner. ACE 30 is recomended by many, but not all. Depends on engine (stock, performance, race and age), plus other factors.

maybe try a search......

Uber Kafer · 18 Sep 2013, 2:17 pm

once you have replaced the transaxle oil I can recommend a dose of this stuff, for the transaxle that is.

http://www.nulon.com.au/products/Specialty_Products/Manual_Gearbox_and_Diff_Treatment/#.UjkoddI6Je8

Nulon G70 manual gearbox and diff treatment.

and heres a tip, just confirm that you can get the 'fill' plug undone before you dump the transaxle oil out the bottom drain, just in case a gorilla did up the plug in the past. Otherwise you will have to roll the car on its roof to refill the transaxle.

vlad01 · 18 Sep 2013, 4:27 pm

I use that treatment. works great, reduces wear on the box greatly and is very noticable in the old oil drain with the treatment vs without. Without, there is metalic texture to the oil and with it its pretty clean.

barls · 18 Sep 2013, 5:51 pm

been covered a million times now, please use the search
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or here
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68AutoBug · 18 Sep 2013, 9:21 pm

I have been using Nulon G70 for many years in every vehicle that had a diff or manual gearbox..
including VW transaxles..

LEE

Uber Kafer wrote:once you have replaced the transaxle oil I can recommend a dose of this stuff, for the transaxle that is.

http://www.nulon.com.au/products/Specialty_Products/Manual_Gearbox_and_Diff_Treatment/#.UjkoddI6Je8

Nulon G70 manual gearbox and diff treatment.

and heres a tip, just confirm that you can get the 'fill' plug undone before you dump the transaxle oil out the bottom drain, just in case a gorilla did up the plug in the past. Otherwise you will have to roll the car on its roof to refill the transaxle.

bajachris88 · 18 Sep 2013, 9:52 pm

Ensure high zinc content for air cooled push rod engines.

Penrite offers this in 20w50. 20w50 is suitable for a stock air cooled engine, if uprated oil pumps are used you should go thinner.

bugzla · 18 Sep 2013, 10:50 pm

lucas also make a high zinc mineral and syn in 20w50 nothing comes close to the zinc rating of this oil

vlad01 · 18 Sep 2013, 11:24 pm

bugzla wrote:lucas also make a high zinc mineral and syn in 20w50 nothing comes close to the zinc rating of this oil

whats the ppm? I bet I can name few with higher. but higher its always better. its about choosing correct balance of chemistry for the right application.

Dazz · 24 Oct 2013, 6:27 pm

To those that offered some advise, I thank you.

Being a technology phobic I didn't know about a

SEARCH feature. I promise I will use that in the future.

I like this forum for the helpful people.

Peter Leonard · 25 Oct 2013, 10:55 pm

ENGINE OIL
it's actually the phosphorus that does the work 🤓
if you want look into it seriously go check out the BITOG forum and take your info with a bucket of salt. Generally speaking you're looking at high zddp and a name brand, avoid the later classifications like SM/SN oils which have to defer to regulations designed for keeping catalytic converters alive.

bugzla · 26 Oct 2013, 5:54 pm

ppm 3250

bugzla · 26 Oct 2013, 5:55 pm

also look into v twin from mobil