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Transmission Oil in 70 T

Greetings Pelicans,

I had the tranny rebuilt a while back and it' dry right now.......Any reccomendations on what transmission oil I need to put into it?

Dirty Marty
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some guys like swepco 201 oils some like mineral 90w80..i would use on the older 911 mineral..
On my last 3 trans.job i used mineral 80w90

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some guys like swepco 201 oils some like mineral 90w80..i would use on the older 911 mineral..
On my last 3 trans.job i used mineral 80w90

Ivan
^^^ This. I use SWEPCO on the recommendation of Steve Weiner (RIP) and Jeff Gamroth. Whatever you use be sure it is a GL5. No friction modifiers unless you have a LSD.
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Swepco. I use it all on my 3 cars.
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Oil thread here we go ...

Use truck stop oil.
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I had a swepco in mine since i put it in after rebuild back in 2009 but just a year ago the trans.started to leak.. for no reason at the nose..So since i cannot get swepco in Europe i used mineral 80w90 and oil leak stoped

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Just changed mine in my 911/01 yesterday and I like Valvoline High Performance SAE 80W90
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Thanks for the input, even the smartass in SF

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