Thread: OILS AIN'T OILS - R380

I buy the 20lt drum....why not? you are going to use it, and along with a good quality drum pump its so easy to pump into all the points. So much cheaper than buying 1lt from auto stores. Go to your local truck supply. Here on the Gold Coast, Gibbs are the castrol agent, cheapest place I could find.....by $100 a drum

30 bucks a litre here is just insanity

Originally Posted by djam1

Does anyone know if you can use syntrans in the LT230 just to keep commonality with oil that you carry.
I was always told to use synrax but it means I must carry both types when travelling.

I'd use a 75W-90 or heavier, the LT230 gets bloody hot and there's bugger all oil in there to start with.

It's common with your diff oils, remember

Originally Posted by 460cixy

What's every one paying for the castrol syntrans 75-85 ? Really ****ed me off to find you can only get it on litre containers or 20litre drums I just don't use enough of it to warrant buying 20 litres

Haven't bought any for a long time, but it's only three litres that should last 20,000km so isn't a big impost in the scheme of things.

Motul Gear 300 is around that $30/litre mark too, and it's good stuff

Originally Posted by outback jeff

Thanks Inc, I should get my gearbox back next week from being rebuilt , so I will also the bloke at the shop (it's a land rover shop) what he would recommend and see it he know anything about castrol syntrans.

Cheers Jeff

I'd use it rather than an ATF

Originally Posted by 460cixy

30 bucks a litre here is just insanity

Mate, thats pretty much what it is here on the GC for 1lt pots....If you go to a truck supply and by a 20lt drum, you should get it for about 2/3 that rate. X that by 20 you save $200

It's a shame it's not valvoline as that's where we get all our fluids for work come from. When I was working at a ford dealer they used castrol and no one misses a slice from a cut loaf

Originally Posted by 460cixy

It's a shame it's not valvoline as that's where we get all our fluids for work come from. When I was working at a ford dealer they used castrol and no one misses a slice from a cut loaf

Valvoline Duragear 75W-85