RedLine lightweight GB oil stuffed my 3rd gear synchro!!

[kayot1k]

i can vouch for samo !
this person that started this topic does not know what he/she is on about.
thumbs down !!
you have no technical/theoretical grounds to prove that redline doesnt belong in a honda box just that one mishap you had.
mustve been pouring the stuff on the ground.

[fatboyz39]

BTW - i have noticed that most Honda gearboxes are subject to third gear synchro problems after a while of hard driving...

ditto...

[SLOWEGG]

Pouring the stuff on the ground ? He must be rich..

[locote]

Hey Kayot1k u just made tha smartest coment of all!!!
Exept it wasnt me who poured it into the ground the gearbox blew it all out!!
it blew 2 different caps clean off, and it ozzed out when i used a K&N breather

Im not saying redline oil directly stuffed my synchro i have no proof it did.
but i can say that because it kept blowing it all out and the box started running empty, the synchro went.

And why has it stopped blowing the oil out once i put MTF in it.
Maybe because it was the redline making all the problems.

Im only trying to share an experience so no one else has same prob as me and wrecks their box.

BTW it was lightweight( light blue oil) filled to the right amount( till it dripped of the HEX bolt)

I filled the redline same as the MTF through the breather hole.
the top filler hole was as tight as F and the nut was starting to strip so i chose not to continue.

I used exacly same oil in my S15 and it loved it never had a drama...

Next time ill take video footage just for u Kayot1k,
Y the **** would i make a post about this but not tell the truth???
I posted exacly what i did how i did it and what i used..

[gReY-oNe]

im currently using light weight redline in my box
thats wat the mech put in after the new box went in
and it seems to be runnin perfect for me

i havnt seen a problem
but im having it drained out this week for a flush
myte rethink putting oem fluid in

[aaronng]

The more viscous lightweight caused an airlock because it was not flowing into the transmission case. Since it is more viscous than MTF, I suspect that Lightweight MUST be filled into the gearbox using the proper filler bolt and not the vent. That way, the Lightweight will be at the bottom and coating your gears. Also, you might have caused damage to your synchros because by using the vent, transmission fluid did not get all the way down into the bottom of the case and might have left a few sections of the gears dry. How many litres of Lightweight did you put in?

[locote]

2.4lts

[Slow96GSR]

That sounds about right. But aaronng is right about using the actual filler hole, not the vent. The oil might not have coated everything.

[koldfire]

i have a 120,000km ITR LSD box with 4.7 final drive. I drive hard and use honda oil. 3rd gear synchros crooked as well. sometimes, can't even downshift at highspeed at all.

[Samo]

from wat i heard from ppl ... more than 90% of the time 3rd gear's synchros go first ,,, then its 4th .. in hondas

may cos the vent that u filled the fluid wasnt on properly and it spat out ... and when u used the k&n breather .. it'll just pour out of the vents of the filter bit

then when u put honda mtf in .. mayb u had it on properly so its all good nnow

[aaronng]

i have a 120,000km ITR LSD box with 4.7 final drive. I drive hard and use honda oil. 3rd gear synchros crooked as well. sometimes, can't even downshift at highspeed at all.

Yours is more like normal wear. His was spraying out MTF out of the breather hole...

[aaronng]

2.4lts

Ok, but seriously, you can get MTF down the breather vent because it is 70w80. BUt you can't get Redline Lightweight down the same way because it is 75w140.

You said that you filled it until it dropped out of the hex bolt. Is that hex bolt the filler bolt? If it was, you should have just filled it through that instead of the breather vent.