Neo Gear oil?
 

Anyone use Neo? Sounds like it's the best of the best from those who know about it. Any experience?

It is from the bravo shop I think it works great

Got it from George at All American drive service. He swears by it

I swear by it. I drained my drives this morning and couldn't believe how clean the oil came out. It looked brand new and I was asking myself why am I putting new Neo gear oil in, but I felt guilty because I have 75 hours on the oil. Yes, that's right 75 hours. John from the Bravo Shop claims the gear oil is good for well over 100 hours between changes. When I was running Mercruisers gear oil it was black after 25 hours. The stuff is the real deal. I run their P40 engine oil too.

It really is incredible stuff! I rebuilt both XR Sportmasters last winter, ran the first 17 hrs on Merc Hi Perf gear lube. When I went to change it, was very disappointed to find way more metal on the magnets than I am comfortable with. (I'm running 780hp each)
At this point, I decided to flush the drives and swap from side to side in order to run on the fresh side of the gear teeth. After flushing out any remaining trash, I filled with NEO 75/80, Ran it hard for 10 hrs and checked the magnets to find ZERO metal! Been running it for 25 hrs now with no signs of wear.

-Always been skeptical of big claims but in my experience, NEO Synthetic really performs under severe duty use.

Kurt

Same here... AADS seems to know his stuff pretty well! Two thumbs up!

Great stuff. Ran it in a couple boats now and no issues and as mentioned before - at oil change time it still looked great, and no metal on the magnets. An added pls is dealing with a guy like John - great customer service and always willing to help.

How many qts / gal does it take to fill a Bravo 1 and the reservoir? I could run a whole season with this and not have change until end of season. (50hrs not to extreme)

2.5 quarts i believe

I was "supervising" JMS this morning while he drained the oil... (Or is it, trying to stay out of the way) either way, I can attest the oil was amazingly clean. Hats off to the Bravo Shop and glad to see the claims of long life are true!

I run the NEO oil as well. Definitely runs cooler, based on a lot less white residue on drive case at top. Also comes out really clean, so obviously it runs cooler as advertised.

Good stuff !!!!

2.8 qts to fill a completely empty Bravo and about .2 qt more to fill the res bottle. I would probably get 4 qts to be safe and have a little extra.

Has anyone run the Neo and comparable Amsoil products? I am familiar with Amsoil, I use it and have had good luck with it, but I have not heard of the Neo products and wondered how they had compared.

I used to run Amsoil prior to switching to Neo. The Amsoil did not last as long as the Neo does. Seems to become contaminated faster....

I use NEO in all my drives,blowers and now its going in everyones engines that I service, since I met George from AADS. He just shipped 15/50 and oil for the #6 drives.

Just as a clarification... AADS and The Bravo Shop are NOT using stock NEO blends. They are each having their own fomulations made up. If you are running stock of the shelf NEO... you are not getting the best bang for the buck IMO.

Do each shop have a different blend or is that stuff the same?

It's my understanding per one of the shops that each shop has their own blend...

Thats confusing

What's confusing about it??? You asked a question, I gave you an answer.

Shop "a" has the oil blended to their liking. Shop "b" might have a different formulation they like. Hence the difference. If you buy enough/pay for it, you can get it done.

Its confusing because its the same name but different products. I use Bravo shop neo

Yeah... it all depends who you ask too lol..

I have bravo shop neo in my drives as well...

Sorry for the confusion guys, Bravo Shop oil is proprietary product that is manufactured and packaged by Neo and only sold through the Bravo Shop.

What weight is your spec Gear lube?
I have been running the Mobil 1 75w-90 with a half quart of the Lucas treatment in each.
If there is better i will go with it.
My lower gears had the surface polish and Cryo done and they have been doing well. Its the vertical shafts snapping at the bearing sleeve shoulder.
The uppers are lasting forever.

Its a 75-90.
You need to put the new style shaft and race to match.