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I just put redline (smurfsblood) in and I it was 3.5 quart bottles (3.3 litres approx), but do a search its been covered before many times, in fact I think I looked it up on here to see how many to order.

what oil should i use? im trying to stop my 4th crunching? redline or royal purple? which is the better to use.

Redline did shit all for my crunching gearbox.. absolute waste of money

try a simple gearbox oil change first $30 and see if that fixes it.. Castrol VMX80

btw the gearbox will take around 3.5 - 3.8 litres... You just keep filling until it comes out of the filler hole.. (make sure you undo the filler hole before dumping your old oil)

Ive changed it many times before :P

Edited by MotoMan

Yep just short of 4L.

I tried Castrol VMX80 last time, it worked fine... but I'm thinking of swapping it out with Castrol Syntrax which is the much more expensive fully synthetic product. It's about $30 per 1L bottle at any local auto store.

I filled mine with 3.8l of redline. Only been 250km since the change, so i cant really comment on any difference in crunching/etc (mine doesn't crunch often anyway). Ended up getting it for 22$ a quart :(.

thanx for all the comments guys

yeah i found a fairly cheap supplier with redline stuff

he is doin me 4ltrs delivered for $112 which i thought was ok.

all the auto shops were around $150

going to get oil change done next week as my 4th is just about impossible to change into unless u double/triple clutch it

  • 2 weeks later...

Just a little update.

dropped the oil this afternoon out of the box

and to my suprise 3 syncro clips stuck the to bung :)

so i aint going to put $150 worth of redline oil in.

i dont know what to do. what are rebuilds worth on these boxes?

Just a little update.

dropped the oil this afternoon out of the box

and to my suprise 3 syncro clips stuck the to bung :)

so i aint going to put $150 worth of redline oil in.

i dont know what to do. what are rebuilds worth on these boxes?

Bearings/seals and 4 syncros is around $1500-1600

thats drive in drive out price..

Just a little update.

dropped the oil this afternoon out of the box

and to my suprise 3 syncro clips stuck the to bung :D

so i aint going to put $150 worth of redline oil in.

i dont know what to do. what are rebuilds worth on these boxes?

lol... i had this exact same problem, 3 clips stuck to the magnet, must be a common problem on the RB25 boxes?

I got gear crunching in 3rd and especially 4th... Just for the record, I use VMX80 for the gearbox and diff, and in my books its a pretty good oil...

either way, looks like ill have to get a rebuild soon.. ;)

Edited by EVL-R33

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