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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: sierragls on 18 August 2012, 10:26

Title: Gearbox oil change made things worse.
Post by: sierragls on 18 August 2012, 10:26

Can anyone explain this. I changed the oil in my gearbox as occasionally it would pop out of reverse and whines a little when reversing, but now it pops out of reverse almost everytime now and it's a little stiffer to get into 1st when changing down. I know the eventual prognosis is a new gearbox, but most on here have seen improvements when they had done an oil change.

I used halfords 80/90 oil.

Title: Re: Gearbox oil change made things worse.
Post by: Rmachines on 18 August 2012, 12:29

Use Castrol syntrans/syntrax fully synthetc it the gold bottle.   :smug:

Title: Re: Gearbox oil change made things worse.
Post by: Leroy on 18 August 2012, 12:58

I did the same when the synchromesh was going so it was crunching into 2nd gear, put new gearbox oil in and was worse so ended up getting a new gearbox.