Subject: [s-cars] Fliud questions

[Mike Platt]

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



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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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