suzuki oils

[rynocerous]

what oils are you guys using in your transmissions, transfers and diffs?
cheers
ryno

[ZookNC]

Hi Ryno,

The best I've found for my coily (bought new) after 100,000 kms is as follows :

Castrol Magnatec for the engine
Mobil 80w90 heavy duty gear oil for gearbox, T/case and diffs.

This is after having tried several brands and mix-matching Castrol and Mobil oils. I ran Mobil 4x4 oil in the engine and Castrol 75w90 oil in the gearbox at one stage but wasn't real happy with either.

hope this helps

[GRPABT1]

Havn't done the gear oils yet (very soon) but I have always sworn by Penrite engine oil, I use HPR15 in the sierra and my V8 commodore.

[juzzyr]

i haven't had a problem using penrite hpr15 in engine, even ran with shattered piston and i run penrite hypoid 80/90 in all diffs, transfers etc

[landcrusier ute]

in mt stockman i run penrite 10-50 in the diffs lsd 140 and gearbox 90-100 all penrite oils

[offroadjack]

vmx 80 in gearbox,epx 80/90 in transfer and diffs ( all castrol ) 15w40 in the engine. all this is for sierras only!and early vitaras.

[josh zing zing]

i run penrite 10/50 in my sierra 1298 motor and75/80 in all the gearboxes under the bonnet of mine it says to run 10/40 in the motor but its also written in french and spanish or something ,its pretty hard to find 10 40 any where so im guessing 10/50 is best but id like to know from someone more experienced also if u drive more full on or under load like heaps of soft sand driving i imagine 20/60 may b the go hm

[GRPABT1]

I just changed to castol edge 10/60 for the GTi motor in the zook to try and sort out some noisey lifters. So far it seems to be working well.

[Magnat]

20W /50 for the Motor but Definately Hypoid for the Diffs

[twin zooks]

Castrol 10w/30 in Vit and XL7(great for noisey chain tensioner in XL7) and Hypoid.:thumb:

[josh zing zing]

ok so ive recently toped up my engine oil with penrite 15/60 and the motors runing a bit quieter and i had a look at the mobil and penrite sites and they both recomend a 15 /50, 15 ,something ,oil so i think ill do an oil change to- 15 /60 soon also on the bak of the 10 -50 penright bottles it says european spec so i hope this info is usefull ,alltho its not about dif oil like watnot, was asking. Ive got 75 80 gear oil in my diffs and i think theyre good cheers and hapy new years and stuff

[twin zooks]

Or you could check your manual.

[GRPABT1]

I'm gonna try some redline oil for my transfer case when I put the new gears in, expensive but worth it cause it takes bugger all.

[mick85]

castrol gtx3 15w/40 in the engine, diffs no idea mechanic did them last service but it should be something similar to transfer, castrol 80w/90 heavy duty in the t-case with low range 4.9 gears

change engine oil every 5000 - 8000