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Offline Richard Steger

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Re: What gear oil for my tranny
« Reply #30 on: March 26, 2010, 01:11:18 am »
Quote from: Brett Haviland on March 25, 2010, 10:54:11 pm
My tranny blew up to pieces all over the highway.  I was running redline MT90.   All the other times i was running Royal purple/lucas 75w90 or penzoil syncromesh and never had a problem with them blowing into little pieces.

So you're blaming the blown tranny on the Redline MT90 instead of the 208 whp through a colt tranny designed for 100whp ???
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Offline Brett Haviland

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Re: What gear oil for my tranny
« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2010, 07:58:34 am »
well the other 4 trannys held together in one piece at least!


hahaha  and wait till i start putting down like 280-300ish through them....  See what happens then.

Oh and they were designed for 92 CRANK HP lol.  so thats like 70 WHP hahah
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Offline KevinBuckham

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Re: What gear oil for my tranny
« Reply #32 on: April 05, 2010, 04:14:14 pm »
I run 75-80% of NEO RHD, and the the rest Redline.

Previously I ran a mixture of Syncromesh with Redline or straight BG II until I heard about too many failures that *seemed* to have been cured with a gear oil switch.   Gear oil is cheap, but there's only so much we can do with a transmission our size.

-Kevin
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