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Post by beachbum on Mar 14, 2012 15:38:16 GMT -6
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Post by jct842 on Mar 14, 2012 18:15:23 GMT -6
interesting but it is by amsoil and kind of biased that direction.
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Post by beachbum on Mar 14, 2012 21:44:16 GMT -6
interesting but it is by amsoil and kind of biased that direction. Eat the grapes spit out the seeds. |
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Post by Bashan on Mar 15, 2012 3:03:04 GMT -6
Eat the grapes spit out the seeds. [/b][/quote] Har! Never heard that one, I'll have to remember that.
Amsoil is trying to sell a product but there's good stuff in that article and on that site in general. They have a good article on gear oil vs engine oil and surprisingly viscosity isn't that much different, just the numbers:
You can see on the chart that 30W engine oil corresponds to 85W gear oil. I ran into this because my two CF Motos recommend 10W-30 engine oil in the transmission. I was never comfortable with this so I researched it. Although the viscosities are very similar there's many properties of gear oil, such as shear resistance, that make it appropriate for a transmission. I decided to eschew the manual and go with the gear oil. Rich |
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