[Amc-list] Manual transmission juice

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

OK, I decide to run actual gear oil, and not motor oil, in the T-96, 
since I was scared straight by the trans failure. No more funny fluids 
for me!

     "No Sir Ossifer, had I known my health were in jep-rody
     I never would had lit one."
       -- HELL'S ANGEL TO COP, BUSTED WITH A [marijuana] JOINT


Long story short: mail order. It is nearly impossible to find 
transmission lube/gear oil WITHOUT "extreme pressure" (read: corrosive 
sulphur) additives.

All of the old specifications are as obsolete as tube radios. The 
nomenclature in the TSM is worthless!

Look for: GL-1 (old gear lube) or better, GL-4 (new gear lube). Nearly 
everything is GL-5. DO NOT! run common GL-5 juice in our old Borg Warner 
transmissions, with bronze thrust bushings and synchro friction rings! 
It eats them.

(It may be that some of the synthetic "GL-5" fluids achieve that level 
of "extreme pressure" without sulphur, but (1) it's hard to figure out 
which is which and (2) it's not available retail.)

Autozone had ONLY Royal Purple, $15! per quart. That stated it met GL-4 
and GL-5. Ouch! $30 for transmission juice! Good stuff though.



If it fails again, I will not rebuild it a third time! In goes a T-5! 
(Even though it would be my own damn fault if it fails.)



Man it's fun to drive this car!!
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