Gearbox And Reardiff Oil

[Bainator]

Hi!

There will be snow i Norway soon, so now im going to do a oilservice before i put it away for a couple of months.

My brother works at a local benz dealer, so I`ll get 50% off castrol oils.

What do you recomend i use in the gearbox and in the reardiff?

Im going to use castrol edge 0/40 in the engine.

I have seen that redline if often recomended, but i dont have an 50% discount on redline. And if im going to use it i have to order from us og england (expensive)

[__PhaseShiftDown]

Straight out of the Castrol website using their lube selector. This is for a R32 GTR btw, I don't think the 33 GTST is listed there. Faily sure they are the right ones, but you may want to call Castrol to confirm.

Engine:

CASTROL EDGE SPORT 10W-60

Gearbox

CASTROL VMX 80

Power Steering

CASTROL PS FLUID

Diff

CASTROL EPX 80W/90

4WD Transfer

CASTROL TRANSMAX Z

Edited October 4, 2008 by __PhaseShiftDown

[Bainator]

Thnx. I sent a request per mail to castrol norway if there is the same oil or not.

[rev210]

Use castrol syntrans fully synthetic gear oil and the fully synthetic LSD oil. Not the cheapo VMX80.

[RB25.]

just thought id hijack the thread but got a 34 GT-T

i was wondering would castrol syntrax 75/90 do ? im not sure if it mentions if its for LSD's though

[Kinks]

syntrax for gearbox and diff. GT-T with the standard viscous LSD will be fine as viscous is a sealed unit. If you have A-LSD then you need a diff oil with friction modifiers in it.

definitely go synthetic. I had motul gear 300 in my diff and after 80,000km and a couple of texi days I dropped the oil and it was still honey coloured and smelled great.

[RB25.]

syntrax for gearbox and diff. GT-T with the standard viscous LSD will be fine as viscous is a sealed unit. If you have A-LSD then you need a diff oil with friction modifiers in it.

definitely go synthetic. I had motul gear 300 in my diff and after 80,000km and a couple of texi days I dropped the oil and it was still honey coloured and smelled great.

ok thanks but the LSD fluid is slightly thicker would that matter

ahh and also how can i tell if i got a LSD or a viscous LSD ?

[R.3.2.G.T.R]

for 32R diffs, is there a difference in oil used between front and rear diff

i see CASTROL EPX 80W/90 is recommended by Castrol however other threads also recommend Castrol SAF-XA Limited Slip Rear Axle Oil - 80W-140 (apparently due to different conditions between Jap and Aus)

[Moodles2]

front is a normal diff, rear is a LSD. Rear needs LSD oil, front doesn't (doesn't need LSD oil, but can use it without any harm)

[R.3.2.G.T.R]

sweet, i think ill go the following

Front Diff - Castrol Syntrax Transaxle & Manual Transmission Fluid - 75W-90

Rear Diff - Castrol SAF-XA Limited Slip Rear Axle Oil - 80W-140

Edited October 7, 2011 by BWRGTR

[KiwiRS4T]

Hi!

There will be snow i Norway soon, so now im going to do a oilservice before i put it away for a couple of months.

My brother works at a local benz dealer, so I`ll get 50% off castrol oils.

What do you recomend i use in the gearbox and in the reardiff?

Im going to use castrol edge 0/40 in the engine.

I have seen that redline if often recomended, but i dont have an 50% discount on redline. And if im going to use it i have to order from us og england (expensive)

can you get Motul Ow 30 or say Agip 5W 30

[vesh]

on the topics of gear oil, I just had my GTR gearbox rebuilt with new synchros and seals. It has a OS Giken gearset in it and I am still contemplating which gear oil to use . . .

I am deciding out of Redline Shockproof Light and Royal Purple Max Gear Oil. Any recommendations on these two??

[KiwiRS4T]

Don't use Redline shockproof. Use their MT90 (or Motul).

http://www.redlineoil.com/product.aspx?pid=46&pcid=7