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BDiggity 05-13-2009 03:29 PM

TRS Drive Oil
 
Going to replace the oil in my drives. I am using Valvoline Syn Racing oil in the engines & thought about using their High Perf 80w-90 or SynPower 75w-90 gear oil in the drives. Thoughts on either of these two or other suggestions?

Also how much is needed for a pair?

MILD THUNDER 05-13-2009 04:08 PM

Ive always used mobil 1 75-90, royal purple 75-90, or amsoil 75-90. You'll need 8 quarts to do both drives.

wannabe 05-14-2009 12:21 PM

Isn't the Mercury blue lube what you want to use?

Wannabe

BDiggity 05-15-2009 06:31 AM


Originally Posted by wannabe (Post 2866033)
Isn't the Mercury blue lube what you want to use?

Wannabe

i dont know, ive never used merc stuff.

jennys express 05-15-2009 09:32 AM

use anything but royal purple merc has tested thaqt stuff and is bad ist hand knowlege here todd

Yellow_ICC_OK 05-17-2009 03:54 PM

Yup
 
USE THE BLUE. It's freaking high dollar, but it works. Bout $11 per quart at the store, u need 4 quarts. Essentially, it's like 75-80 wt gear oil, but don't use synthetic.

picklenjim 05-17-2009 04:43 PM


Originally Posted by Yellow_ICC_OK (Post 2867748)
USE THE BLUE. It's freaking high dollar, but it works. Bout $11 per quart at the store, u need 4 quarts. Essentially, it's like 75-80 wt gear oil, but don't use synthetic.

You talkin about the Merc High Performance (blue) Gear Lube?That's cheap! It's $16 a quart around St.Louis area!!

crapr6 05-17-2009 05:27 PM

I just changed over to the Merc Hi-perf gear oil (blue in color) in my TRS drive. It took about 3qts and then I had to buy a 4th quart to top of the drive and fill the over flow tank.

picklenjim 05-17-2009 06:17 PM

The guy at the Merc dealer told me that when the oil prices went up to over $100 dollars a barrel Merc raised it.Then when it went back down they didn't!!:bsflag:

Hang Time 27 05-29-2009 09:10 PM

You would believe what merc says about another drive oil, when they are trying to sell thier own??


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