Just changed my gear oil - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

blinkwatt · 01-23-2007, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by clb0099

The manual says to change it at 90k

I thought it was part of the 60k tune-up?

I changed my tranny oil to Redline MT-90 and right away it was smoother in everything. I have put over 1k on it since and nothing has changed.

Travis · 01-23-2007, 04:09 PM

CJ / Blink -

Did you change yourself? If so how involved.

CJ_Boxster · 01-23-2007, 04:36 PM

nope, fathers shop hands did it for me

blinkwatt · 01-23-2007, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Travis

CJ / Blink -

Did you change yourself? If so how involved.

Yes I changed mine myself. It's not so much hard,but rather an annoyance trying to fit the big hex key in the filler whole to loosen and tighten the plug,same with fitting the tranny fluid in there(I transferred the oil from the new tranny oil container to a small container I had around the garage,made it much easier).

JackG · 01-23-2007, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by blinkwatt

I thought it was part of the 60k tune-up?

I changed my tranny oil to Redline MT-90 and right away it was smoother in everything. I have put over 1k on it since and nothing has changed.

My experience exactly. My 3 & 4 shifts were stiff when cold, but the MT-90 helped by 50% when cold and made the gearbox smoother overall.