can hydraulic fluid be used in the chain case on a snowmobile?
Posted on Nov 07, 2009 under snowmobile motor |i have a 2000 Ski-doo MXZ 600 and i want to clean the chain case and change the lube, ive heard everything from motor oil to gear lube being used. i have motor oil, auto trans. fluid, and hydraulic fluid. which is the best choice?
I think I tried to answer your question on your expansion chamber and muffler. For a chain case I would use synthetic gear lube. It would flow easier at low temperatures yet offer the linked chain in the chain-case an extra measure of EP (extreme pressure) protection from the chain- case sproket-gears. Another possibly would be most any brand of low viscosity racing oil. Joe Gibbs, Mobil1, Quaker State, Pennzoil, Brad Penn and Valvoline make specialty racing oil’s with high concentrations of zinc and phosphorus which are high EP additives. If you want very fluid thin oil yet have extremely good metal to metal protection this would be it!
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By Country Boy on Nov 7, 2009 | Reply
I think I tried to answer your question on your expansion chamber and muffler. For a chain case I would use synthetic gear lube. It would flow easier at low temperatures yet offer the linked chain in the chain-case an extra measure of EP (extreme pressure) protection from the chain- case sproket-gears. Another possibly would be most any brand of low viscosity racing oil. Joe Gibbs, Mobil1, Quaker State, Pennzoil, Brad Penn and Valvoline make specialty racing oil’s with high concentrations of zinc and phosphorus which are high EP additives. If you want very fluid thin oil yet have extremely good metal to metal protection this would be it!
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