harder to engage after oil change? Possible?

[Valkyrie]

Have change my gearbox oil recently. was told the clutch share the same oil. After the change, find it is a bit hard to engage into second gear when drop from high gear when doing a engine brake?

is it possible because the oil level or the quality of oil etc?

[Glen]

Different gear box oil will give you a different feel. There shouldn't be any oil on the clutch though.

[Guest]

 Glen said:

Different gear box oil will give you a different feel. There shouldn't be any oil on the clutch though.

+1

-smurff

[dumbskate]

 Valkyrie said:

Have change my gearbox oil recently. was told the clutch share the same oil. After the change, find it is a bit hard to engage into second gear when drop from high gear when doing a engine brake?

is it possible because the oil level or the quality of oil etc?

He might be confused with the hydraulic fluid for the clutch. But no that is not shared with your gearbox either. I would say you have either changed to a thinner grade oil and now your old gear box feels more like its age or the new oil isn't getting through all the galleries in the gearbox and some parts are starving for lubrication.

[Valkyrie]

so what you guys use for your car?!

[cpt kernow]

Fuchs Titan gear 75-90

[Joker]

if you topped up clutch then you need to flush out - read the cap - it says DOT 3 ONLY

[Valkyrie]

 JoKer said:

if you topped up clutch then you need to flush out - read the cap - it says DOT 3 ONLY

no I didn't!!! ;D luckily!!

[Guest keltik]

I use whatever craps laying around. I think theres a mix of 75w90 80w90 and straight 80 in mine, it shifts beautifully. Very crisp and never crunchy.

Cant say id reccomend mixing oils, so im going to reccomend Valvoline 75w90. It made my old GT shift like a brand new car

[driftrex]

what grade did they put in your gearbox?

i use Caltex Synstar 75w90 which is a full synthetic (GL-5 rated) and not cheap but seems to be good. we use it in most subbies at work as thats whats recommended by caltex who supply all our oils.

[Guest keltik]

 driftrex said:

full synthetic and not cheap.....thats whats recommended by caltex who supply all our oils.

Wow caltex reccomend the expensive stuff. I wonder why...

[driftrex]

 keltik']

[quote name='driftrex said:

full synthetic and not cheap.....thats whats recommended by caltex who supply all our oils.

/quote]

Wow caltex reccomend the expensive stuff. I wonder why...

because it meets the specs required maybe? lol.

[Guest loren]

 driftrex']

[quote name='driftrex said:

full synthetic and not cheap.....thats whats recommended by caltex who supply all our oils.

/quote]

Wow caltex reccomend the expensive stuff. I wonder why...

because it meets the specs required maybe? lol.

lol. sucker.

[driftrex]

 loren']

[quote name='driftrex said:

full synthetic and not cheap.....thats whats recommended by caltex who supply all our oils.

/quote]

Wow caltex reccomend the expensive stuff. I wonder why...

because it meets the specs required maybe? lol.

lol. sucker.

explain please?

i should add that my subaru workshop manual also recommends a GL-5 rated gearbox oil, which the synthetic 75w90 is, but the cheaper mineral based 75w90 is only GL-4 rated. you can run the mineral no probs and i have done before myself (as gearbox was coming out again anyway) but really unless your a cheap ass why would you run anything thats a lower spec than factory fill?

there is more to oil than just the viscosity.

[Guest loren]

 CUDDAS said:

i'm using Red Line lightweight shockproof gear oil, it's rated as 75w140, & it seam's fine to me, anybody else using it.

I use redline shockproof, but not 75w140... 75w90 I think.

driftrex: I just meant sucker for using what a distributor said to use, but it's probably

good sh1t.

[driftrex]

 loren said:

driftrex: I just meant sucker for using what a distributor said to use, but it's probably

good sh1t.

sweet as, just did a search for specs on the redline 75w90 which you are using and that has a GL-5 rating so your all good :-)

[Swindog]

 CUDDAS said:

i'm using Red Line lightweight shockproof gear oil, it's rated as 75w140, & it seam's fine to me, anybody else using it.

Used in rear diff and gearbox... is shit for some reason so switched to Castrol Syntrax which is what all the Sooby sepcialists said so paid some decent money for it and now its mint.