Gearbox and Diff Oil?
04-07-2008, 01:26 PM
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Gearbox and Diff Oil?
What Gearbox oil and diff oil should I be putting in a Escort Cosworth?
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Just put Silkolene synthetic 75/90 in mine
04-07-2008, 02:27 PM
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Same for both the Gearbox and the diff?
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Yes mate and the transfer box
04-07-2008, 07:50 PM
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i put mobil synthetic in mine.....both the same for each.
04-07-2008, 09:43 PM
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I put different oil in the transfer box to the gear box, castrol from matt lewis for both but they were definitely different.
04-07-2008, 09:45 PM
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they are ment to be different Mart, but the ATF that is supposed to go in the diff is not really up to it, so the same oil in mine for both.
05-07-2008, 11:51 AM
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I'm sure their was a post in GD that said 75/90 synthetic in everything even though the manual says differently.
05-07-2008, 12:17 PM
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would it be the same syn 75/90 in a straight cut box??
05-07-2008, 05:40 PM
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would it be the same syn 75/90 in a straight cut box??
mines a straight cut box and i got advised to use it by the person who made my box.
05-07-2008, 07:31 PM
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they are ment to be different Mart, but the ATF that is supposed to go in the diff is not really up to it, so the same oil in mine for both.
The way you drive your car i can see why!!! Legendary
I'll just give mine a nice easy time lol
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im with Dave on this one.
06-07-2008, 09:21 AM
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as kelv and dave said same oil in both transfer and gearbox
06-07-2008, 09:35 AM
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as kelv and dave said same oil in both transfer and gearbox
what do you reccommend on the FFD boxes??
07-07-2008, 10:29 AM
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what do you reccommend on the FFD boxes??
hi mate
same again a good quality (silkolen ect)fully synthetic 75w/90w for the FFD or Xtrac
marco
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