Oil for Eaton Supercharger

[FranklinJL]

What's common use for say eatons? I've used 10w30 in the past....

 

[Shannow]

GM stinky stuff
Bell Performance have something.

There's a GM TSB that says to use 5W30 M1

I use Castrol Edge 5W30 A3/B4.

Would be inclined to use Penrite SAE30, which is dual use gearbox as well.

 

[artificialist]

I think you could go to a Ford dealer and buy the supercharger oil for a 2001-2004 Ford Lightning F150, 2003-2004 Mustang Terminator, or a Thunderbird SuperCoupe. I think those were Eaton superchargers, but I am not totally sure.

 

[drums5757]

eaton m45

 

[PhillyJoe]

No one ever got in trouble for buying GM supercharger oil. 2 bottles @ $10/ea every 50,000 miles.

 

[901Memphis]

10w30 will certainly do the trick in Arizona, I'd make sure to use a good synthetic, maybe Pennzoil Ultra

 

[bdcardinal]

Make sure you check the level periodically. Had a customer never check the level on their Lightning and ran the supercharger dry. Was a very expensive failure for them.

 

[FranklinJL]

Thanks guys, this was a supercharger on a 350z a friend just picked up, rebuilding this motor is surprising easy....first Japan motor for me

 

[slacktide_bitog]

Mobil 1 5w30

 

[drums5757]

bad choice

 

[A_Harman]

Go to the GM dealer and buy supercharger oil. The Eaton supercharger timing housings only have gears in them, and the oil is never exposed to products of combustion, so a gear oil is appropriate. This is why the stuff should stink like a gear oil. Later model Eaton's went to 83-tooth timing gears to deal with noise complaints, and the large number of fine teeth turning at 12,000 rpm make them excellent for shearing the oil.

 

[Shannow]

I agree that the right stuff is the right stuff.

But when I got my L67, local Holden dealer hadn't bought a bottle in 12 years, and it took them 2 weeks and $50/bottle to get, meaning that GM-H aren't stocking/shifting it...either the S/Cs are running on something else, or they are still factory fill.