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Originally Posted by Ridgerunr
Well it sure helped my diff in my commander, it was so loud you needed ear plugs at any speed over 30 mph. Now you can go 80 with no issues. I just feel any time you can cut friction you will cut heat, and make things last longer. Maybe more research is needed on my part, that's way I posted it here, to get more input.
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Well my input to you stands that these transmissions are researched and developed to operate under very specific tolerances and, as such, need lubricants that are consistent with the design of them.
While it is true you cut heat when you cut friction, but by that same token you may be swinging things too far in the other direction, also resulting in damage (the very thing you're trying to prevent). As others have alluded to, too much slippage can fuck up things in there just as too little
All I'm saying is you should be very aware of the damage you can do and to take into consideration the design and purpose of the system (here, transmission + diff) to discern whether or not it'd be a good idea.
I did a little researching and it appears WS2 indeed helps a good deal of people's diff whine issues in their commanders. I'm not saying that it wouldn't produce an effect, because as a nano, it most definitely will coat EVERYTHING inside the transmission* and do
SOMETHING... but correlating noise/whine to "bad" is a shot in the dark if you're not a master transmission specialist who can pinpoint what's going on in the case
(take note of that- very hard to clean if this turns out to be bad for the system- and some subscribe to the belief that once a tranny is cracked, it will never be the same. I've replaced 3 WRX 5mt transmissions and rebuilt one, and while the Aisin is better, general principles still stand)