Differences Between Gear Oil?

[Pyrenees]

Ahh it's in that thread. I hadn't looked there. I figured it out by taking off skidplates and looking at what was attached to what.

 

[Hugh Calgary]

I made an air powered rig for filling the diffs and transfer case. Used a cheap garden sprayer some hose and a few fittings. My tire gauge with vavle worked great to pressurize the sprayer. Using a pressure regulator would be a nice upgrade. I found 20 PSI was perfect for filling the diffs and transfer case. Measured the correct amount of gear oil to put in the “sprayer” so the final level was perfect with no spillage.
Total cost was less than $20.
No pumping - priceless.

 

[planomateo]

^^ this.

 

[calskibum]

Planomateo, thank you for the tip on the discount...will be looking to see if there is one near me.

2001LC, lots of good info (and pics) in your thread and I'll be digging through it to see what other nuggets I can find. For some reason when I did a search before on the topic your thread didn't show up. It may be my lack of sophistication in running searches. But now that I have that thread, I'll be bookmarking it for future reference.

 

[Spike555]

I was wondering why you recommended these, but now I understand.

I whole heartily live by the philosophy of KISS (keep it simple stupid) every single day. I use habits and systems to make my life as easy and trouble free as possible, and sometimes that means spending extra money to save myself work in the future.
It might take me longer to do something but I never make a mistake.

 

[NoTempoLimit]

Copper crush washer on bottom of front diff can be re-annealed and reused with no issues...simply heat it until cherry red, and drop into a can of cold water.
Steve

Great thread on the gear oil change! And I didn't know you could heat and quickly cool copper and it will anneal. For steel you have to let it cool slowly in air.