Subject: [s-cars] Fliud questions

[Jerry Scott]

GL5 is the fluid that Audi recommends for the trany.  So what is GL4?

Trevor Frank wrote:

>I thought that GL5 was so slick it just didn't let the syncro's work, I
>didn't realize that it ate them.
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>From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Kirby Smith
>Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:06 PM
>To: Mike Platt
>Cc: tmullane at snet.net; Scar
>Subject: Re: Subject: [s-cars] Fliud questions
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>GL 5 gear oil usually has sulfer compounds that eat brass syncros when
>hot.  Use GL4 in the tranny, or Audi recommended stuff, and GL5 in the
>rear differential.
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>kirby
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>Mike Platt wrote:
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>>Hi Tom,
>>Gear oil. I ain't gettin in any darned battle here
>>but.. I put in Castrol synthetic gear oil in the front
>>and rear. Boy does gear oil stink!!! It's been almost
>>a year and I have had no ill effects in the cold. I
>>have driven car in -29 and many times well below zero
>>this winter. All is well in wet, snow, and dry. Take
>>your time filling the tranny though. The fluid needs
>>to go up and over to get to the driveshaft output
>>area. Give yourself 20 minutes for this. I found lying
>>under car daydreaming, and looking for other crap to
>>fix, made the time go by. Check seals too. I replaced
>>mine when we all did the clutch last May.
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>>Brake fluid. Track junkies, like myself swear by the
>>blue stuff but I have been using the Valvoline syn
>>power dot 4. The boiling point is like 5 degrees less
>>than the Super blue, price a bit less. I ran some
>>track days in my 2400 lb P-car with no problems. It's
>>been in my 4000lb avant with no problems either.
>>Good Luck.
>>Mike P
>>95.5 avant
>>2 P-cars
>>1 red Duc
>>1 good ole merican pickup
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>>Good progress on the garage queen this weekend despite
>>the distraction
>>of
>>concurrently installing a paver driveway for my tenant
>>next door (he
>>has a
>>BMW, so regular asphalt won't do - lol).  Got the
>>front end all back
>>together with the springs and struts, camber plates,
>>big reds, and new
>>CV
>>boots.  I also took the tie rods apart and lubed them
>>up to make the
>>alignment people happy.  I'm hoping to finish the rear
>>this week and
>>move on
>>to other things.  I think I will drive the car a bit
>>before diving into
>>the
>>RS2 stuff.
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>>So anyway, I'm almost afraid to ask, but it is time to
>>full and flush
>>the
>>brake fluid, and change the trans and rear end fluid.
>>I expect this
>>car to
>>be predominantly a road creature, but track use is
>>very likely.  This
>>is New
>>England, so temps will range from zero degrees Kelvin
>>to the inferno of
>>Hell - sometimes during the same week.  The car
>>currently has 73k on
>>it, and
>>I assume it is running on dino oil.
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>>So what to use and where - engine, trans, rear,
>>brakes?  I under that
>>the
>>trans needs GL4 and the rear prefers GL5 (no diff lock
>>on this beast,
>>if
>>that matters).  What the best thing to use, where to
>>buy?  Should I
>>bleed
>>the clutch, or just the brakes?  Engine oil blend or
>>full synth?
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>>I know this is a can of worms, but I have heard both
>>good and bad about
>>the
>>Redline stuff, I don't know much about the BG
>>stuff....
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>>TIA
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>>Tom Mullane
>>20vt engine still for sale!
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