Grease or Gear oil

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I have a question I have always had grease in my transaxles but is gear oil better? what should I run this will be for mud. Transaxle is a mst-205-544c comes stock with gear oil and I will have a 25hp V-twin ohv briggs with some 20X10.0-8 4 PLY SUPER LUG carlisle. if I should run gear oil what should I use?

Thanks,
Russ!

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lol no one?

Subject: Re: Grease or Gear oil May 22nd 2012, 10:01 pm

Something along the lines of 80w90, 75w90, or 75w140n depending on where you live and how cold it gets.

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Florida ....

Subject: Re: Grease or Gear oil May 23rd 2012, 5:00 pm

For what its worth, we run gear oil in all of our racing machines' trannys. I believe 80w. It serves well enough whether we are blasting through snow drifts or screaming along in the 90+ degree heat. I don't think any failures we have had were due to the oil.

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Should I put a vent on it?

Subject: Re: Grease or Gear oil May 24th 2012, 9:20 am

We do... I guess it depends on how hot you're going to get the transmission and how offensive you find oil seeping out of the various seals etc.

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