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oils
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:50 pm
by pwombat50
please advise gearbox,transfer case.diffs oils for nissan patrol G.Q diesel
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:38 pm
by kane077
75/90 in gearbox. dexron 3 in transfer. 80/90 in front diff and limited slip 85/140 in rear diff. Can also run 75/90 in transfer which is what i run in my GQ.
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:02 pm
by sw1
api-gl4 for gearbox. be sure not to use api-gl5
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:48 pm
by chunks
sw1 wrote:api-gl4 for gearbox. be sure not to use api-gl5
Why is that?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:41 pm
by sw1
a commonly available gear oil in say autopro/repco is epx 80/90, which is api-gl5. average joe bloggs would tend to think 'yeah she'll be right, its gear oil, 80/90 about right'
nissan specify api-gl4 for the trolls gearbox.
castrol vmx-m is api-gl4. i have seen one or two others suggested however i dont remember what they were called.
it seems to me that vmx-m is much less common on the shelf and sometimes needs abit of searching to find it
i have seen two separate gearbox's (not from trolls) that have api-gl4 specified, they were both using api-gl5 and had, by the looks of the rest of the gearbox, early bearing failure.
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:14 pm
by chunks
But gl5 is a higher rated oil then gl4.