What do you all use in your chaincase?


Amsoil chaincase, I was curious what viscosity it is so I called there technical line and they told me its 30 wt. oil.They said gear oil is fine, but this would be better and provide less drag in cold conditions.
 
I use to use amsoil.The nwent to klotz with some energy release.
Now I use synthetic atf with some energy release.
 
Chaincase Lube

ATF has no Extreme Pressure (known as EP additives) in it's blending. Gears and chains require this additive for proper protection. Products marketed as gear lubes are high in EP additives and should be used for this application. A good quality brand name 75 - 90 gear lube will work fine. Synthetics are better in temperture extreme enviroments, in which snowmobiling is one of those.

My choice, 80W-90 Mobil 1 gear lube.
 
Well i had a bottle of yamaha chaincase oil so thats what i used for now. I didnt see anyone using it though. Is there a problem with their oil?
 
Chaincase lube

Use what your wallet dictates. Amsoil is pricy, Yamalube is pricy, Polaris oil is more in the price range, NAPA gear lube is affordable as is Trans fluid. Check it often. My 2 cents.
 
I used ATF last season as I was spliting my case lots with gear changes (just to keep the price of each oil change down). I did not see any problems within 1 season of running it....... Although it was changed well over 6 times in the season. This year I will probably run ATF for the very start of the season; until I am sure my gearrng is correct, and after I do all my driveline maintenance. After that I will switch over to a synthetic gear oil. Before last season I ran polaris gear oil with no problem for 3 seasons. May go back to polaris or an off the shelf brand at an auto supply store....depending where I am shopping the day I need to by oil.
 
Blue family, the reason ATF is just fine is they currently run ATF in any stickshift trans from the big auto makers these days, gear to gear contact In a manual transmission and also 4wd transfer cases requires much more pressure control (sheer resistance)then a chain wrapped on a sprocket does, there is no problem with sheer resistance of ATF, it works great and offers less rolling resistance then gear lube does and its a very high detergent oil as well. Gear lube (even synthetic)on a nice 20 degree below zero day is about equal to half frozen mollases till it heats up,

Everyone runs what they feel is good for them, but there is absolutely no problems with running ATF, I have personally ran it fro a good 12-15 years, not 1 chaincase or bearing failure yet. I guess it boils down to run what you want to spend the money on, I prefer to keep the extra money in my wallet and spend it on better things where I would get a gain from the sled like clutching.
 
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