What oils are commonly used in the engine and box?

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

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

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......

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_T...

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.

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.

been covered a million times now, please use the search
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=22603&page=1#pid171198 
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=102794&page=1#pid965776 
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or here
http://bit.ly/19dfAcZ 

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

LEE

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.

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

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.

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.

ppm 3250

also look into v twin from mobil