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| | | Forums66 Topics128,088 Posts1,056,002 Members48,430 | | Most Online14,466 Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
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on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down with Ads! Again, thanks! | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,786 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,786 | The extreme-pressure additives in rear end grease can have a detrimental effect in some transmissions, but I don't think anything smaller than a Fuller Roadranger will show much of an effect. The shearing effect of the spiral teeth on the ring and pinion gears in the rear end creates friction that the film strength of plain oil cannot handle. The Roadrangers I used to maintain needed to use "straight mineral oil" as we called it, without the hypoid additives. Hypoid lube had a tendency to fill the grooves in the brass synchronizer rings with carbon, for some reason. If I tore down a Roadranger, and the synchro rings were black, I knew it had been running EP 90, not mineral oil. Jerry
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