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Post# 631370 , Reply# 1   10/13/2012 at 18:41 (4,209 days old) by DigAPony ()   |   | |
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Answered my own question with a little more digging, seems 90wt. is the correct viscosity. See link: CLICK HERE TO GO TO DigAPony's LINK |
Post# 631654 , Reply# 2   10/14/2012 at 21:50 (4,208 days old) by beekeyknee (Columbia, MO)   |   | |
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Hi Dig,
I suppose you could be right about the Sta-Lube gear oil. It does have quite a whiff. According to the information on the back of the container, the Sta-Lube API/GL-4 is OK for copper/bronze non-ferrous alloy bearings and bushings, so I went with it. I could have done what Dan said and went with the real thing. It's in my mothers Maytag trans. now. I guess time will tell. I hope it's OK. I don't want to open that b#*%h up again. LOL. It's nice to know that there's still some oils out there with different GL ratings. I don't know if a Maytag trans. is considered a low pressure mechanism or not. Somehow I don't think so after the galling I've seen on some of the gears. But then again, you may be right. I don't know what the Maytag trans. oil looks or smells like; at least the new bottles. Is it still dark brown and stinky or clearish/green and relatively odorless? Can't anybody identify this oil? After all, oil is oil. It doesn't mater what bottle it comes in. What's in it? Brian This post was last edited 10/14/2012 at 23:10 |
Post# 631922 , Reply# 4   10/15/2012 at 19:39 (4,207 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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It used to come out of the bottle brown and fairly thick, I gave up buying the real stuff 25 years ago, we always joked that it looked like something that was a byproduct of the Newton sewage plant, we used to also joke that about the poor quality rubber hoses that MT used as they must have been made of some waste products from the factory. There would have been no other reason that a drain hose would have needed to be that thick and stiff. |
Post# 632016 , Reply# 6   10/16/2012 at 04:03 (4,206 days old) by beekeyknee (Columbia, MO)   |   | |
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Post# 632197 , Reply# 8   10/16/2012 at 22:08 (4,206 days old) by lebron (Minnesota)   |   | |
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Post# 632500 , Reply# 10   10/18/2012 at 05:18 (4,204 days old) by beekeyknee (Columbia, MO)   |   | |
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