Subject: [s-cars] Fliud questions

[Kirby Smith]

Look more carefully at Audi's designation.  I think you will find it to
be not exactly GL-5, although the numbering is similar.  I recall
reading the full number to a Redline Engineer who claimed it was a GL-4.

kirby


Jerry Scott wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >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
> >
> >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.
> >
> >kirby
> >
> >Mike Platt wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> >>Message-ID:
> >><000901c415ae$eade0c50$f7c1529f at corp.utc.com>
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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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>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?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>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....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>TIA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>Tom Mullane
> >>20vt engine still for sale!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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