my gears r starting to get rough and doesnt go into gears sometimes.. and people been telling me to change my gearbox oil.. lol
any advice on which gearbox oil to use.. and how many mL or L do i need to buy
thanks
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my gears r starting to get rough and doesnt go into gears sometimes.. and people been telling me to change my gearbox oil.. lol
any advice on which gearbox oil to use.. and how many mL or L do i need to buy
thanks
haha geo u cac , use motul bro .. just buy like 4 litres should be enough , and save for next time :)
go to shift and buy it
or if u want use water :)
Use Honda MTF 06. You need about 2 litres for the manual gearbox.
And change every 2 years if possible too.
2 years or how many km's, 40000?
i just changed mine not long ago, ended up using 2.1L or so.
40000km is right according to the average driving distance. If you find you end up doing a bit more of 40000km in 2 years, I wouldn't worry too much with going past that. It's still better than Honda's service schedule which is over 100000km before you do anything with the transmission fluid.
Just found it. Honda recommends that it is changed at 120000km / 6 years.
http://carservice.com.au/car-service...0349:thumbsup:
At the 100,000km mark I'll probebly be changing mine to Royal Purple Gear oil. That's only because I used it in my old WRX and find it hard not to use it again (even though Honda's MTF is quite good). Shifting improves 3 fold, and gear transitions/noise is cut by half. Also I would rather know that during the 50,000km service interval it still performance as close as possible to the day I put it in there. I used to change the Mineral Oil (MTF 06) in my integra every 15,000kms and everytime I noticed a quite noticable differance in shift smoothness. If a differance in transmission oil is noticable then the fluid deteroriated over a fairly short period of time too much for my liking.
MTF is probebly more than sufficient. My only advice, stay far away from Penrite Products including the synthetic. I used both their Mineral and Synthetic in about 4 differant Honda's and all ended up shifting hard and grinding/notching into third at anything above 4000rpm. Would not go near their products again. Expessially considering Honda MTF at almost a third of the price, performed better...
Edit, awful spelling
Guys there is an oil out there I used with my straight cut gearbox.. Called NEO,
fuc@ing excellent stuff.. 120 for 4 litres.. So much better than motul and royal purple, ps redline shockproof is ok too
I have heard mixed opinions on the "Neo Synthetics" product line. Some mechanics are very much against Neo (Engine oil in particular) as they have "narrowed it down" to causing some serious engine problems, in some of their skylines/wrx's. Having said that... I know a couple of people that use it with no problems...
Firstly, How exactly is it "so much better" than motul/royal purple? Are you an e-mechanic that reads posts of people saying "OMG xxx oil is the best, because the company targets the high end market and they say its the best"?
Do you have any proof of this? Have you actually compared all the oils? If you have you must have fairly deep pockets and change much more often than recommended drain intervals...
I'm not saying that it necessarily isn't better, or you havn't tried it. However, a post like the one above isn't very helpful to the original poster when all you write is an inane opinion.
To be honest, If I was willing to spend the extra/go to the extra effort to purchase it. I would be using Amsoil. No questions. However, I enjoy my discount/5 minute drive to get Royal Purple ;)