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Dirtbag1

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Has anyone ran or is running the red line shockproof gear oils? My set-up is all Toyota stuff w56-dual cases and mini truck axles with Yukon zip lockers. All older stuff and just trying to make it last as long as possible. I heard good things about the shockproof especially in the axles. Would this be beneficial with my set-up? Thanks
 
Ran that in my FToy diffs, seemed to work great. ANY good synth gear oil likely works about the same, I run AMSOIL now.
 
Friend uses the RedLine Shockproof in his front/rear steering 60s with 5.13s and 42 treps in a pretty heavy buggy and don't seem to have any issues related to lubrication. I use Amsoil 190 in my portals in 75/140 in my diffs. Wish they still offered the 190 severe gear oil, I feel the 250 is too heavy for my Northern Wyoming winter wheeling.
 
As a supplier to the steel industry, my employer was a distributor of Royal Purple years ago. I went through their training school. One thing that became apparent, any oil that is API certified is almost identical due to the stringent API requirements. I became a fan of RP because they really do seem to focus on cleanliness. I've also seen where many racers sponsored by other oils actually use Royal Purple during qualifying. So I run Royal Purple.
I've never used Red Line but ran Swepco because it was spec'd by True Hi-9. That's some thick gooey stuff. LOL For a rock crawler running at slow speeds, I think any name brand synthetic is good.
 
As a supplier to the steel industry, my employer was a distributor of Royal Purple years ago. I went through their training school. One thing that became apparent, any oil that is API certified is almost identical due to the stringent API requirements. I became a fan of RP because they really do seem to focus on cleanliness. I've also seen where many racers sponsored by other oils actually use Royal Purple during qualifying. So I run Royal Purple.
I've never used Red Line but ran Swepco because it was spec'd by True Hi-9. That's some thick gooey stuff. LOL For a rock crawler running at slow speeds, I think any name brand synthetic is good.
Thank you for the info, I have a little experience with royal purple as a barrier fluid on Hot oil testing for mechanical seals where I work, this is an API test as well for our customer's in the oil refinery. Guess I never looked at it that way. Thanks for sparking my interest on this.......Now for the rabbit hole...LOL
 
On another note, I do not use the Royal Purple API oil. I use their HPS line, which has additional additives, thus negating an API rating.
 
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