Well ,Type-F is for Fords , even though everyone makes it .
At 08:00 AM 1/13/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>I don't think so...
>
> There's no such thing as "Proprietary Oil". It would be sooooo expensive
>to have some kind of "special" custom made oil for a single transmission that
>it would be well over what anyone would be willing to pay for it. Oil's
>aren't overly complex, and I'm sure some of the experts here on the list
could
>tell you *Exactly* how they are graded. The NV3500 is in many makes of
>vehicles, not just DC products, so it would stand to reason that they are
>using an oil that is commonly available under type X, but they want to sell
>"their" (mopar) oil.
> My father uses Mobil 1 gear oil in his NV4500 and it works peachy-keen. I
>could only assume it would work fine in an NV3500, since they are basically
>the same transmission with different housings. I'll ask him for the
specifics
>on the gear oil, since I don't know if he gets a special kind. I don't think
>manual transmissions are nearly as picky about the oils they use as the
>automatics since all it is, is a lubricant.
>
>Shaun H.
>
>---original message----
>Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:09:52 -0800
>From: dakota_5sp_v8 <Dakota_5sp_v8@zracer.com>
>Subject: DML: RE: Synthetics in NV3500
>
>the NV3500 takes a proprietary oil that only MOPAR sells. Funny thing is I
>looked through the service manual's maintenance schedule and it does NOT
>call for a change throughout 120k MI plan B. However, it does call for the
>manual trans that comes with the v6. I bought the oil and plan on changing
>it because I have scratched a few times.
>
>Joel
>
>
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