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View Poll Results: Which Gear Oil is best?
AmsOil Severe Gear Synthetic 12 20.00%
Valvoline Synthetic 5 8.33%
Mobil 1 18 30.00%
Redline 10 16.67%
Royal Purple 12 20.00%
Other (Please explain in post) 4 6.67%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 60. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-22-2009, 07:39 AM   #21
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Royal Purple is what i just put in my truck oil and all, cost 300 bucks...but when i changed out my tranny fuild i promise i noticed a difference in how it shifted it was amazing stuff.
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Old 07-22-2009, 10:41 AM   #22
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Royal Purple is what i just put in my truck oil and all, cost 300 bucks...but when i changed out my tranny fuild i promise i noticed a difference in how it shifted it was amazing stuff.

Manual Trans or Auto??

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Old 07-22-2009, 12:35 PM   #23
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Manual of course baby (the best kind of trans)
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Old 07-22-2009, 01:32 PM   #24
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Manual of course baby (the best kind of trans)
Did you use Max-Gear? what weight? Did it take the gear rattle out? How well did it work in very cold weather?

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Old 07-22-2009, 03:51 PM   #25
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Max gear? whats that?
75w-90
i didnt have gear rattle to start with
idk about cold weather its like 90 everyday in the atl...i just changed it last week.
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Old 07-22-2009, 04:45 PM   #26
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Max gear? whats that?
75w-90
i didnt have gear rattle to start with
idk about cold weather its like 90 everyday in the atl...i just changed it last week.

Max Gear is the Royal Purple product for 05-09 Tacoma manual transmission w/ 4 cylinder which calls for 80-90 weight. No Gear rattle.....you must have a earlier Tacoma. Which RP product did you use? I believe the RP Syncromax product is for manual trans that uses a atf consistancy fluid.

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Old 08-07-2009, 06:47 PM   #27
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I don't know what I used was the "best" because I only have 100 miles since fluid change but after reading some feedback that some posters having issues with synthetic, I used conventional Valvoline. 75W-90 front diff, transmission, T-case, and 80W-90 in rear diff. So far so good.
Why 80W in the rear?
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product for 05-09 Tacoma manual transmission w/ 4 cylinder which calls for 80W90....
Wrong.
The '09 calls for 75W90 API GL5 in diffs and T-Case, GL4 or 5 okay in manual trans.
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what about castrol syntec gear 75w 90?
anyone use that?
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Ive only had to have mine done once and Toyota did it. what do they use, anyone know? I will be doing it myself from now on so id be curious to see what most use. it seems like mobil 1 is pretty popular even when doing oil changes.
Each dealer may be different. The dealer I bought my truck from said they participated in the Mobil-1 program, so everything they had was Mobile-1.

I also got to see how they have pipes attached to the ceiling that were distributed all over the work bays for the various types of liquids and lubricants. Each mechanics station/work bay had one of these systems.

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With any large distribution system it made me question the purity of the delivered product. At least I know when I buy it from the store my 5.5 quarts will be pure and not have any contaminants that could be introduced with a large distro system like my dealer had. It is probably fine though and I plan on having my first oil change at the dealer since its free.

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