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U taste ure oil????? 8O

thats a new one prolly good idea though but then again y not just remember when u changed it last.

Im using penrite pedigree 5w-30 i have heard that its good.

I think royal purple is a bit expensive and its excessive if u change oil every 5000 as long as u dont put kmart multigrade crap in.

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Tranmission oil needs to be thin, an idea i'm about to try is to use the highesy grade automatic transmission fluid in my manual box..with some uniglide or the other stuff (can remember name). Suppose to make the box really smooth.

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pppfftt. Kays are just figure, The idea is try and get the little dial to spin as quickly as possible.....hehehe

George.

Yeap pretty sure RP is 5W-50W...Going to check tomorra and tell him to put some aside.

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and how exactly do you tell if your engine is "worn"?

I have over 100,000 kays...

the last 30,000 were done by me, so pretty gentle. Can't really know before that, but it seems to have been treated very well.

Should i change to a thicker oil anyway?

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