How do I add *THIS* to my differential?

Maybe they were using a different definition for "LSD?"

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RIP Albert Hofmann...

anyway I wouldn't waste my time trying to find a Toyota-specific product. A clutch type LSD is pretty much a clutch type LSD as far as lubes are concerned. Just use the GM stuff and don't worry about it.

nate

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What are you, some kind of HERETIC?!? Those clutches and the oil KNOW what the letters on the hood spell, and they won't work together if it says "Toyota" or "Honda" instead of "Chevrolet."

To use the GM additive, he's going to have to rip all the "Toyota" emblems off. Then it'll be fine.

:-p

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All right then, what would you suggest I use in my Studebaker "Twin Traction" unit, hmm? :) I stopped by my local Studebaker dealer to get some of the factory recommended Studebaker-Packard lube, but they appear to only sell some weird German car with a star on the hood now.

nate

You have a local Trabant dealer? Get me one in blue, please!

--scott

Interesting...That's exactly what the Toyota service dep't said! (well, not about not worrying about it. He said they use the GM stuff...)

LOL!

For some reason the GM additive seems to have been the de facto standard for LSD additive. I could make a snarky comment about how GM lubricants have to be better to protect their inferior machinery, or simply posit that while GM didn't introduce LSDs they certainly were an early adopter and popularizer of them.

nate

I'm not too far away from South Bend. I could run over to the Studebaker factory and pick some up for you if your local dealer has started selling some cheap import.

Then again, the Auburn, Cord and Duesenburg factory is only about 50 miles from here. Maybe I could pick up some Duesie rear end lube for you.

Jack

Heh, you laugh, but you probably could, if they still had any. If you do, tell Dennis and Denise I said hi. (for those that don't know, SASCO nee Newman and Altman is still in business, selling leftover Studebaker parts stock out of the old Studebaker engineering building on Sample Street.)

AFAIK, the first use of a clutch type limited slip in a passenger car was in 1957 by Studebaker, so that probably wouldn't be much help :( (sorry to bring a serious fact back to a thread that was starting to become delightfully silly)

nate

Actually, I'd just say they are the biggest company with the biggest parts distribution system, so you can get their stuff more places than you can get Mopar or Motorcraft stuff.

Of course GM doesn't actually MAKE any lubricants at all. They write a spec and some other company produces it, same as all the other car companies. So the GM lube may actually be THE SAME lubricant as Mopar, Motorcraft, Toyota, etc., just in a different-colored bottle.