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Fancy Red Line diff oil?
hobbsy - 5/3/09 at 10:10 AM

I should soon have my shiny new Quaife ATB in my 3.38 7" Sierra diff.

I know it only needs normal EP90 oil as the Quaife diff is an ATB not an LSD that requires special oil.

However I'm sure I remember reading a lot of the RGB boys run fancy Red Line diff oil as its claimed to reduce transmission loses etc.

Something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400011054735

they do a few different versions.

Or I may just go for the Silkolene stuff that Quaife recommend:

http://www.quaife.co.uk/Silkolene-Silktran-SYN-75W-90-synthetic-gear-and-transmission-oil-per-litre

I guess that might be the safer option rather than going for something too thin in the search of 0.01 bhp


BenB - 5/3/09 at 10:28 AM

I've got the Superlightweight stuff in my diff. It's amazing smelling stuff!! I think in my diff I probably need lightweight rather than super as it crashes a bit when taking up the backlash, I suspect if I had thicker oil it wouldn't do that. I also had a problem with the diff oil escaping as vapour via the diff breather. In the end I put a long breather hose on the end of the breather nipple and that stopped it.