Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

Hi chaps,

If you were replacing gearbox oil (50B Box - as in all GU Manuals, incl 4.2D), which gearbox oil would you purchase ? I have the 4.2D, which is well known for reverberation noise at low RPM as a result of harmonic resonance, so i'm not keen on anything with light viscosity,as this would obviously accentuate the noise.

I've been using:
Castrol GL4 80W-90 - Gearbox
Castrol Transmax Dex 3 - Transfer Case
Castrol GL5 EPX 80W-90 - Front Diff
Castrol Syntrax 75W-140 Limited SLip - Rear Diff

Russ,

I use 75W90 GL4 for the gearbox and transfer case
80W90 GL5 for the front and rear diffs, think I also have used EP90 as well......dont think it makes a differance.

I must say that since I started using 75W90 for the gearbox, my gear shifts have been allot better, specially when its cold in the morning. It is also a full synthetic one, but thats only because its the only one I could find.....they are very scarse

But on the gearbox noise at low rpm and idle there was no change

This is what I have been using since 2015 Sept and no problems

Gearbox and transfer case API GL4 Castrol Syntrans Multivehicle 75W-90 (Synthetic)
Front and rear diffs API GL5 Castrol diff

Michael wrote:Russ,

I use 75W90 GL4 for the gearbox and transfer case
80W90 GL5 for the front and rear diffs, think I also have used EP90 as well......dont think it makes a differance.

I must say that since I started using 75W90 for the gearbox, my gear shifts have been allot better, specially when its cold in the morning. It is also a full synthetic one, but thats only because its the only one I could find.....they are very scarse

But on the gearbox noise at low rpm and idle there was no change

Hoeveel olie vat die ratkas, 3.8l?
En transfer case?

Fanus, jy gooi hom tot hy uit loop.....dan is hy presies vol

I added 1liter atf to my gearbox and 500ml atv to my transferbox and it works great now sincro works better....and then fill up with gl4 75w90

Midas by ons hou nie GL4 75w90 ratkas olie aan nie... is daar nie 'n online shop waar mens olies kan koop nie?

Which would be better: Castrol Manual GL-4 75W-90 or Castrol Syntrans T 75W-90 ?

http://www.salube.co.za/downloads/tds/m ... 75w-90.pdf
http://www.salube.co.za/downloads/tds/s ... 75w-90.pdf

dis wat ek in Patrol het....!!!! die Manual maar jy kan ook die synth een gebruik

SJC wrote:Midas by ons hou nie GL4 75w90 ratkas olie aan nie... is daar nie 'n online shop waar mens olies kan koop nie?

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