Re: Synthetic Oil, Conti CZ91

[Mitch Loescher <Loescher@tamu.edu>]

At 04:40 PM 4/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey, kids, there have been a couple of useful threads here recently re:
>RedLine in the tranny and diff, and Mobil 1 in the engine. I just had a
>wheel bearing replaced at a shop on the Cape (long, good story! Ottowerks,
>508.385.2002, ask for Mike, no affiliations, blah, blah) and Mike
>recommended using Mobil synth instead of RedLine. Their experience
>(empirical, not bench racing like some of us do) was that RedLine makes
>shifting "notchy", but is otherwise fine, if perhaps expensive, and Mobil's
>synth would be a fine, cheaper, replacement. Who has an opinion based on
>firsthand (or thereabouts!) experience that they would like to share here?

I have used (and am using) Mobil 1 75W-90 in my tranny and like it well, no
notchiness at all.  It's an '87 5kSQ 5 speed.

 - Mitch Loescher