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Old May 7, 2010 | 07:40 AM
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Default When should we do the Diff Oil Change?

Just wondering has any body did their Differential Oil change yet?? and how many miles should we do oil change for diff ? i know alot of guyz recommended AMSOIL Diff Oil on 2gs forum..
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Old May 7, 2010 | 08:54 AM
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i changed mine around 45k, it's what my master tech recommended.

amsoil is good, you can do redline too. i have a bottle here!!
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Old May 7, 2010 | 09:24 AM
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Thanks Henry.. where did u bough ur Amsoil or Redline oil? Do u have any part#?
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Old May 7, 2010 | 12:12 PM
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ah man, i can't remember, it's been a while. i just got the redline 75w90
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Old May 7, 2010 | 04:39 PM
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How hard is it to do? Can the oil be bought from lexus? How many bottle's?
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Old May 24, 2010 | 10:56 PM
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I just changed mine out today in my SC , I bought my car 2 months ago and I connot tell what the previous owner did with the car so for a piece of mind I changed it, I opened the drain plug and it looked like it was dipped in tar and hardly a full quart came out of it . Cleaned it up and replaced it with Royal Purple gear oil. BTW it helps if you have a filler hose to get the Job easier.
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Old May 24, 2010 | 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by GS350Lexus
How hard is it to do? Can the oil be bought from lexus? How many bottle's?
It's not a hard job to do and simple tools , saftey 1st use jack stands ,3/8's ratchet,10mm hex head,about bottles of (your choice gear oil) and a container to catch the used oil. There are 2 plugs drain and filler , Come to think of it I changed my oil while parked on a 20% grade so I'm not sure if I went over a tad
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Old May 26, 2010 | 12:17 PM
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I'm about to DIY it. Have picked up couple of bottles of GL-5 75w90 synthetic oil and a few feet of clear vinyl tubing to help filling. I changed manual tranny oil before and they always recommend to loosen the fill plug first, as otherwise one may be risking himself in trouble if he has drained the oil only to find the fill plug seized up or hard to get at with tools available.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by rominl
ah man, i can't remember, it's been a while. i just got the redline 75w90
How many bottle or quartz?
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Old May 26, 2010 | 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by canatto
I'm about to DIY it. Have picked up couple of bottles of GL-5 75w90 synthetic oil and a few feet of clear vinyl tubing to help filling. I changed manual tranny oil before and they always recommend to loosen the fill plug first, as otherwise one may be risking himself in trouble if he has drained the oil only to find the fill plug seized up or hard to get at with tools available.
I bought a piece from autozone 2 yrs ago (i still have it) that i screw on to the bottle it even has an open an close valve on it,
and thats very true about opening the filler plug thats the 1st one i loosen up .
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