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ATF in gear oil (MXA recent issue)
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[QUOTE="jmics19067, post: 331312, member: 27963"] if you like youre bike do not use automotive gear oil especially hypoid. the gear oil you would use in a car is so thick that at best after you warm up your bike makes shifting very sloppy. And for some strange reason my fiber plates would come apart and the organic material would stick to the metal plates. I would tend to believe that the sloppy stiff shifting will probably wear out your tranny faster due to the engagement dogs rattling against each other during a sloppy shift as opposed to just schnicking<?> on in. The loads on a 60 horsepower 250lb. cr500 with even a 300lb rider roosting away in the dirt are a heck of a lot different and less than the loads of a 250 horsepower 3000lb.buick with the family and picnic goodies stuffed in the trunk driving down the street. Or a 1500lbs of torque truck engine hauling 80,000 lbs.. The rears in those vehicles have a helical cut ring and pinion gear as opposed to constant mesh gears. They also have the size to use a lot more leverage on the shifting mechanisms on the manual trans compared to a 1/2 inch throw on a 6 inch lever of a dirt bike. an automatic trans in a car does have to deal with bearings and gears as well as a torque converter and slipping bands so I doubt highly you are going to lose any protection using it. I tend to use a light grade non E.C. motor oil only because I dont know what happens to tranny oil if it happens to get sucked up and burned becasue of a leaking right side main seal. Any thoughts or comments on that woudl be greatly appreciated!!! [/QUOTE]
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