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Gear oil leak
It won't help with leaks, and in fact as expensive as it is, I would fix all
leaks before putting in some Redline MTL... The stuff works great, and is
much better than either GL4 or GL5 for stopping crunching between shifts... I
heard about some swearing by it for years, and tried it within the last 2
years, I am now one of the converted... :-) Well worth the 12.00 a quart (or
liter?)... You will need two...
HTH
David Utley
Quoting "T. Reed" <treed2@wsu.edu>:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Chad Eatock wrote:
>
> > The product I bought is a gear oil additive designed to help smooth out
> > shifting and prevent leakage....it is guaranteed to be compatible with all
> > gear oils/tranny fluids....the Bentley suggests 80W90 gl-5...still think I
>
> You don't want gl-5.
>
> See: http://www.nwlink.com/~vdb/vw/Transmission/tranny.lube
>
>
> > should forego the additive?
>
> I would. You don't want anything that changes the amount of lubrication
> because synchros require friction in order to operate. No synchros = lots
> of grinding and quickly broken tranny.
>
> > Chadster '87 16v
>
> The main thing you're after is a GL-4 lube. They are harder to find than
> you would think (at the local auto parts store) but they are around.
>
> HTH
>
> -Toby
>
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