From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 21:15:54 PST
At 4:21 AM +0000 3/27/04, D O wrote:
>I vaguely remember a somewhat recent discussion
>regarding the topic of gear lube for the M35
>axles, tcase, and trans. Something about NOT to
>use GL5? I don't understand how the improved
>additive package of GL5 would hurt anything, but
>am getting ready to do some work on the deuce
>and don't want to put bad stuff in.
It has to do with the sulfates in the EP
additives. They are corrosive to bronze/copper
metal components that are present in some bearing
carriers and other bits. The Sulfer attacks the
copper causing the bearing cages to slowly
disintegrate.
see:
http://www.sbcc.ca/tech/lube1.htm
and
http://www.noria.com/learning_center/category_article.asp?articleid=496&relatedbookgroup=OilAnalysis
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