Originally Posted by
dylan07
I know it's been awhile, been driving the beater car I'm trying to sell. Also had bad weather. I'm going to clean the underside of the engine and transmission tomorrow. And if I see oil on the top end I'll clean that too.
Today it jumped out of 1st gear again and it was a clunk then grinding. I'm scared it's going to break a gear.
Should I drain the oil and change it to new MB transmission oil? Or... I've read some people used Mobil 1 0w40, I've heard some people use synthetic ATF.... I've heard one guy use something crazy like 80w70 (same as differential I believe)? Not sure what to use, or if this will fix all of my problems....
common for the nsg370 1st gear pop out, me either I put it in gear as I am rolling to a stop, or if stop, 1st, 2nd then back to 1st, if you pay attention sometimes you can feel a double click as it goes in 1st, when it pops out, it doesn't go completly into 1st.
scared the sh#! Out of me when it happened to me the 1st time.
use the reccomended oil weight.......
many manuals love the 80-90, 75-90, 90-140 etc. gear oil but it will eat through the brass synchros, as many light duty manuals have brass in them.
heavy duty trans with some Lucas 75-90 and you are good to go, but not with brass.
I have changed my oil 3 times in trans, some people never do it at all.
they are strict on engine oil, but I guess they do not worry about getting the shavings out of the oil in trans.