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Actually it is all straight cut bevel gears, no hypoid gears.

I am getting a lot of foam in the gear oil.

I got it back together and no leaks. It is foaming pretty bad. Looks like milk. No water in it though. Will the foam hurt anything?

So I just put seals in the axle of my Kubota B2910. Manual calls for GL-4 or GL-5. Supertech 80W90 is GL5 which should be a better high pressure lube than the factory UDT or synthetic UDT (GL-4). I expect it had the factory load of plain UDT. I am mainly going cheap to make sure I don't have any...

Rotella T6 high oil consumption. I have two Kubota tractors and one with a Mitsubishi engine. Kubota never burned a drop using an old formulation of M1 truck and suv. Ran out of it and started using T6 5w40 and now all three burn about half a quart. I have put 5 hrs on the latest one and it has...

Ok so the manual says 10 yrs or 120k miles which seems pretty long of an interval. It says FL22 antifreeze. What are the specs on it?

I am having a hard time finding the stuff. Looks like $25 a gallon for full strength.

Hard to find expensive etc. Which one of 1000 types and colors do you need.

So most engines are cast iron, cast aluminum, with rubber hoses. So why do I need special antifreeze for my Mazda or is that all hype? What is wrong with plain old green? Seems that not changing it is worse than worrying about what to put in there. Does it matter what I use as long as it is...

I guess you never made a mistake?

Changed the oil just now. Oil looked normal no silver streaks or signs of abnormal wear. It probably had around 3 guarts in it at the lowest. I got about 4 quarts out of it, one of which was the quart I added last night. I saved some and might send it to Blackstone labs.

I am not happy about it. I am pretty ocd most of the time. I usually get at least 20 yrs out of cars. Still have my 91 Eclipse bought new. 2000 Excursion.

Plan to. We bought a 44 piece of property and are in the early stages of building a house and I work full time. 5 cars, a motorcycle, two tractors, 3 travel trailers, a doublewide and you see how things fall through the cracks. I maintain all of them. Nothing has blown up yet.

Next owner will buying a 10 - 15 yr old car with over 200k.on it. I expect the car will be worth about $2k then. I will have gotten the life out of it. We paid $24k for it new. A car is a beast of burden to me not a status symbol. Buy it use it up get rid of it when maintenance gets time consuming.