Re: Tranny oil changing

["Meat" <penny@sk.sympatico.ca>]

unless you're going from reg oil to synth there's really no need to change
the oil in your manual tranny because there is let heat/ friction to break
down the oil. but its always been a good practice to change it every
100,000 kms anyways.

Sean Penny
'84 Zender Z400 (in progress)

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> From: Jason Brunberg <stoopid@idirect.com>
> To: scirocco list <scirocco-l@privateI.com>
> Subject: Tranny oil changing
> Date: Wednesday, May 01, 1996 9:38 PM
> 
> I have heard it said that tranny oil in a manual transmission does not
> need to be changed.  This person said that in automatic trannies it does
> because the gearbox gets hot and breaks the oil down, but in manual
> trannies, the same doesn't hold true.  I tried arguing, but he let me
> take his 310 000km Rabbit GTi for a spin, and the damn thing shifts
> smoother than mine!  Comments?
> 
> jason
> 87 16V
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