<VV> Synchronizers and blockers

[Vairtec Corp]

Smitty, your FLAPS guy has steered you right again, GL-5 that says it 
also meets GL-4 standards is N/G for Corvair manual transmissions (but 
fine for Powerglide diffs).  There are now some products on the market 
specifically aimed at we old guys and our old cars, I've been 
recommending a Brad Penn gear lube but there are others.

--Bob


On 11/6/2014 2:15 PM, Smitty via VirtualVairs wrote:
> Not long ago There was some conversation about problems of synchronizers blocking gear shifts.  I stated at the time I was having the same problem.  It just kept getting worse starting with third gear and then blocking second and high as well.  Made for very difficult driving, monkeying around with the stick while traffic moved off without me.  My FLAPS guy whom I can always count on for good info,  ( he remembers the 4 carb turbo Spyders), told me he had other customers that were having the same problem.  He took me back to the oil display and showed me a pointy top Pennsoil bottle.  I read it and decided at this point nothing could hurt cause I was going to have to pull the tranney anyway.  So I put a pint in the transaxle and tried it out.  A whole new world.  Shifts like snot on a door knob.  gg  I have no idea what the long term effects will be but using the GL-5 that says it is good for GL-4 obviously wasn’t hacking it.
> The name of the product is synchromesh and it comes in the typical yellow Pensoil bottle.  The writeup on the bottle says it protects yellow metal components inside the tranny.  (that’s our synchronizers).