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[Burla]

I am skeptical of these long intervals. Now Ronnie and Corey are bat**** crazy with their short oci's, but if I had to pick I would take their strategy over just never changing the fluid, which is basically what they are selling. How many of us ever put 500k on a truck?

 

[R.L.K.]

Dealers won't do anything. It's "normal" to them. Quiet, loud, it's normal, until it's not, which is when something fails. So I just wait for a lifter to fail.

Going to do an oil change soon, send a sample off to blackstone.

Do yourself & your Hemi a favor Sir .... imho pour in the REDLINE 5W-30 with the RP Filter of your choice .... Things will likely be better than they were ......

Good luck Sir From North East Tennessee

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[U&A]

Thoughts on this?

Triax Synergy Gear MAX 75W90 GL-5 Limited Slip - Ultra Long Drain 500k Miles. Manual Transmission, Gear/Differential Lubricant. (1 Gallon) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BB5D3XS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_DwAMBbX3N8JK4

I would not run any fluid that long in anything if someone paid me


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[R.L.K.]

I would hate to think Yukon is now a Chinese product.

Pretty sure it is ???

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[U&A]

Pretty sure it is ???

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They are foreign made

but They also buy other gears and re label them now too.


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[Burla]

You aren't in the hurricane path Ronnie? Looks like north east tenn will get hit a bit.

 

[smiley]

I would not run any fluid that long in anything if someone paid me


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I tend to agree. I just bought Redline from Nick for my diffs but was curious if anyone has or would run this for a normal interval.

 

[U&A]

Regarding the break-in cycle of my new differential gears that I asked about yesterday,

I’m going to follow the procedures that Mike showed me but I also wanted to ask you guys what point (miles) do you think it is OK to switch to redline differential fluid?

Both procedures said 500 miles and your good but I’m thinking I might do two cycles of 500 miles or maybe a 500 and 1000 and then switch to redline.


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[Burla]

I'd say 3k, but that is a guess. You should email Dave.

 

[69GWC]

When we put 4:10s in my Nova we broke those gears in at a 1/4 mile at a time...lol never had a problem with them.

 

[U&A]

I'd say 3k, but that is a guess. You should email Dave.

Good call. I mean, Dave ...IS...the man, so .....


I’ll call him tomorrow


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[huntergreen]

Pretty sure it is ???

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Been a long time since I had a wrangler regeared, but Yukon were the gears of choice. They were always American made and top shelf quality. Was only from reading recent posts I found out the Yukon I knew no longer exists.

 

[smiley]

Regarding the break-in cycle of my new differential gears that I asked about yesterday,

I’m going to follow the procedures that Mike showed me but I also wanted to ask you guys what point (miles) do you think it is OK to switch to redline differential fluid?

Both procedures said 500 miles and your good but I’m thinking I might do two cycles of 500 miles or maybe a 500 and 1000 and then switch to redline.


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I have always used the method that is on Randy’s Ring and pinion. I then do complete line change at 500 miles with full pan pull and wipe down inside. His method worked pretty well I did have a noisy set once but I don’t think that was procedure issues really but rather a bad set.

 

[smiley]

Good god Redline gear lube smells bad! My wife came out of the house while I was swapping the fluid in both diffs and said omg that smells it is giving me a headache. It is potent stuff.

 

[U&A]

Good god Redline gear lube smells bad! My wife came out of the house while I was swapping the fluid in both diffs and said omg that smells it is giving me a headache. It is potent stuff.

LOL

I had some on a rag under the seat of my truck for weeks. Had no idea it was there and the wife and I could not figure out what the **** smelled so bad[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]


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[Riccochet]

Do yourself & your Hemi a favor Sir .... imho pour in the REDLINE 5W-30 with the RP Filter of your choice .... Things will likely be better than they were ......

Good luck Sir From North East Tennessee

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I'm already 6000 miles in to using Redline 5W30 with a RP 10-48 filter. Things have gotten a little better, but there is still cold start chatter and a warm tick.

 

[U&A]

I'm already 6000 miles in to using Redline 5W30 with a RP 10-48 filter. Things have gotten a little better, but there is still cold start chatter and a warm tick.

Ill be honest. If i STILL had issues with redline..........i would first try a new filter. And if that did nothing, i hate to say it but i would seriously go straight to PYB and try additives.

I know we are not fond of additives much but you just tried the top of the line base stock with a boat load of moly and it still is not right. There is not much room for improvement (that we can find yet) so i would start experimenting.

Liqui moly makes 2 in particular that I’m interested in. The ceramic one and the lifter additive.

JMO

I know some will disagree


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[tjfdesmo]

I am anti-additive for sure, but I did salvage my OCI on Amsoil with a can of MoS2. Definitely made a difference.

 

[Burla]

Smell is in the eye of the beholder, I love that nasty gear oil smell.

 

[smiley]

Smell is in the eye of the beholder, I love that nasty gear oil smell.

Ewwwww