Swepco inferior?
02-05-2005, 01:25 PM
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Swepco inferior?
Earlier this week there was a thread about transaxle oil, everyone praised Redline and Swepco was called inferior.
Anyone explain why?
Anyone explain why?
02-05-2005, 01:48 PM
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Swepco is still very good oil, but it's dyno based. Redline is synthetic. Synthetic is in all ways superior, although I still wouldn't say Swepco is "bad" oil - it's just more limited and will need to be changed more often.
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Empirical data - I changed to swepco from a nearly dry transmission, and performance was worse. Changed to redline, and it got much much better. I have a feeling that's what a lot of people found out.
02-05-2005, 05:18 PM
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I've used Swepco for about 18 mos. or so and esp. during the winter didn't notice much difference from the cheap dino that I had in there prev. to Swepco.
After spending $35 for the Swepco I didn't just want to dump it though.
After spending $35 for the Swepco I didn't just want to dump it though.
