TheSamba.com :: View topic - Anybody tested redline gear box oil for split?

Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:11 am

Might it be worth to test redline MTL-gear box oil for split to reduce noise + better shift handling?

http://www.redlineoil.com/products_gearlubricants.asp?categoryID=7

Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:49 am

I used that for many years in my watercooled VWs. Its very good.

I might try it in my split to see if I can shave a couple minutes off my 1/4 mile times at the drag strip when ripping through those (non synchro) gears.... :wink:

Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:21 pm

Those splits are torquey. I always have trouble keeping the front from coming up on launch! 8)

Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:11 pm

Splitdog wrote: Those splits are torquey. I always have trouble keeping the front from coming up on launch! 8)

Yeah, those Avon tourist bias plies bite HARD, huh???

Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:20 pm

With only 15-18 psi they're pratically wrinklewalls! :wink:

Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:11 pm

I used this in my other vehicle a 2003 car and it made a drastic differance...shifts like butter now I would say give it a shot. but then again isn't it synthetic?

Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:52 pm

my03yellowv wrote: I used this in my other vehicle a 2003 car and it made a drastic differance...shifts like butter now I would say give it a shot. but then again isn't it synthetic?

Made from "synthetic basestocks". See their website for details

Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:22 pm

i use redline mt-90. works great.

Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:34 pm

I have some Swepco 201 I'm gonna try in my late model trans. Porsche guys swear by it.

Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:00 pm

the redline stuff is the shiz.
ive always run the MT90 in my bus boxes and reductions. smoothness FTMFW!