Re: [MV] Differential Gear Oil Replacement on Non-MV truck. Synthetic??

From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 13:43:03 PST


Tune in to www.dodgepowerwagon.com and ask the forum wise guys. A P Bloom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernon Tuck" <vtuck@tucklings.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:45 AM
Subject: [MV] Differential Gear Oil Replacement on Non-MV truck. Synthetic??

> I'm probably pushing the envelope here since I'm not asking about a
military
> vehicle but a Dodge diesel truck.
>
> I have an old high mileage (275K) '91 Dodge Cummins one ton flatbed
dually.
> I haven't owned it that long. Yesterday I took it in for an oil change
and
> asked 'em to suck out and replace the gear oil in the pumpkin.
>
> It turned out that the oil was so yucky they couldn't even suck most of it
> outta there. Since neither they nor I had a replacement gasket they did
not
> remove the cover. I asked 'em to top it off with new oil until I could
get
> a gasket and bring it back.
>
> That should happen today. I'm wondering whether I should replace it with
> synthetic oil.
>
> Anybody have a strong opinion one way or da udder?
>
> Thanks!
> Vernon
>
>
>
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