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What we use;

4WD Transfer = Castrol Transmax Z

Automatic Transmission = Castrol Transmax Z

Manual Transmission = Castrol Syntrans 75W-85 or Castrol Syntrax 75W-90

Differential = Castrol SAF-XA

Cheers

Gary

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Hi Sydney Kid

Thanks for your info on lubes.

Do you know, or can you point me where I can find oil volumes, for routene maintanence M35 Stagea.

VQ25DET, 5 speed auto, front and rear diffs and anything else that might be important.

Thank you

Murray

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aaahh... just what i need. I have steering rack binding issues, highly annoying and first step was changing power steering fluid.

have heard good things about Castrol Transmax Z

don't mind spending good $$ on this, can you get better than Castrol for power steering fluid?

a brake fluid thread would be handy as well, hint hint ;)

SK, you have PM :)

well it's worked fine for us (although it leaks a lot, not sure I can blame the fluid for that lol)

brake fluid - Motul rbf600 or the Agip stuff are the best I've tried, and the motul is about $30 a bottle at bike shops - very good value

as far as i know, you race GTR's, and well... i guess so does SK :), so if it can cop that type of punishment, sounds like it's all i'm going to need ;)

heard anything about TRW Lucas brake fluid?

nope, he races GTRs, I break race GTRs.

but anyway - I'ev tried a heap of fluids because I'vehad ongoing braking problems and the motul and agip have been the best. Other ones I've tried are AP racing, castrol, caltex (of all things), lucas. All of the others have performed worse than the motuland cost more.

This is for pretty extreme use, but since you can get the motul at a good price I can't see a reason not to use it in a road car as well

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Hi Gary

mi name is valentin and i have a nissan skyline gtr r33 year 1996 i wanna to know how many of liter of oil are need to put in mi gear box i use here in mi country dominicain republic a motul 75w90 mechany syntheny, i wanna to how many liter are need to put in mi gear box , the gear box is empty because i chance, please help me about this information because tomorow a gonna to put this transmission thanks for all....

What we use;

4WD Transfer = Castrol Transmax Z

Automatic Transmission = Castrol Transmax Z

Manual Transmission = Castrol Syntrans 75W-85 or Castrol Syntrax 75W-90

Differential = Castrol SAF-XA

Cheers

Gary

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Subie, Castrol Syntrans 75w-90 :whistling:

Crack the filler bolt (to make sure you can actually fill the damn thing), then remove the draining bolt and allow it to drain.

You can then get a pumping tool to pump the transmission fluid from the bottle to the filler hole.

You should fill until the fluid reaches the filler hole, it's designed to take only the right amount of fluid (when on level ground!!).

If you cant get the filler bolt undone for some reason, you can always remove the transmission lever from inside the car, and pour down the hole there, and from memory (the GTST box I used in my 180sx) took 2.5 litres of fluid, but someone else can confirm that.

B.

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just got my self a r33 gtr, and am going to do all oils on it and am wondering how many litres would roughly be needed for

diff

gearbox

4wd transfer

attessa

as i don't want to drain it and find out i don't have enough oil as it my only car at the moment.

cheers mitch

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