[Bob Carriere]

Paul may have a valid point there...... I have never taken an axle apart that the gears were rusted....... that black goo inside seemed to protect everything....even when parked for years...decade???

In fact I have taken apart tranny that had at least 2 litres of water inside....... and was surprised that even the lower end bearings and races were not pitted...... or the cased cracked from repeated years of freezing.....

With the propencity of Sin-Thetic to leak I may very well go back to heavy gear oil....after all I will not be driving it in the winter time.... I back filled a M37 tranny wtih STP in the 70s..... sure quieted the thing down.... however at -35F.... if you let out the clutch the engine stalled and the tranny could not be shifted for quite a while until it warmed up.....

Any recommendation on oil numbers...????

ON THE spacer...... closer examination of other C15a in the cemetery failed to show rubber on the steel spacer of the L bracket.

Bob