Hi All!
My 90 has done 135k ish and when I first bought it (5 years ago) I had terrible trouble changing from 1st to 2nd, and under hard acceleration from 3rd to 4th.
The problem as we all know is fairly worn syncro's. Anyway, I changed the oil as soon as I got it home and put atf fluid in, as advised by Ashcroft. This was better than before, and I ran it like this for the next three services, changing at about 8k.
With adapting my driving style to that of the needs of a 21 year old Landy, with relatively unknown service history, gear changes improved, but I still found the 3rd to 4th, with a trailer, under full load getting up to traffic speed, the change would still 'catch' and not snick in smoothly, to the point were Id regularly double de-clutch as this helped immensely, and the next service I used the MTF, to no avail, thoughts of a g/box rebuild quickly swamped my everyday thoughts!!
I thought I'd try something different on my last change, and my local garage that does the Landy's mot's recommended Morris's Lodexol FR-X.
WOW! Amazing! Honestly, our VW passat doesn't have as nice a gear change as the 90 now, I can literally change gear using my little finger on the gearstick, it is quite honestly unbelievable!! I'll be using this from now on! I hope anyone reading this that are having the same (very common with older g/boxes) issues tries this oil! Reasonably priced, locally made! Just thought I'd share!
My 90 has done 135k ish and when I first bought it (5 years ago) I had terrible trouble changing from 1st to 2nd, and under hard acceleration from 3rd to 4th.
The problem as we all know is fairly worn syncro's. Anyway, I changed the oil as soon as I got it home and put atf fluid in, as advised by Ashcroft. This was better than before, and I ran it like this for the next three services, changing at about 8k.
With adapting my driving style to that of the needs of a 21 year old Landy, with relatively unknown service history, gear changes improved, but I still found the 3rd to 4th, with a trailer, under full load getting up to traffic speed, the change would still 'catch' and not snick in smoothly, to the point were Id regularly double de-clutch as this helped immensely, and the next service I used the MTF, to no avail, thoughts of a g/box rebuild quickly swamped my everyday thoughts!!
I thought I'd try something different on my last change, and my local garage that does the Landy's mot's recommended Morris's Lodexol FR-X.
WOW! Amazing! Honestly, our VW passat doesn't have as nice a gear change as the 90 now, I can literally change gear using my little finger on the gearstick, it is quite honestly unbelievable!! I'll be using this from now on! I hope anyone reading this that are having the same (very common with older g/boxes) issues tries this oil! Reasonably priced, locally made! Just thought I'd share!
