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Jess, I bought my RedLine Gear Oil at The NAPA in town, either NAPA or PEPboys should be a place for you to look at for RedLine products. Jess the Mad-Mechanic (Mad-Scientist) with his Hybrid Ti...  It'll turnout as a monster ride for sure! __________________ 2LT Rodriguez CA ARNG
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Quote: Originally Posted by pnosker  Wtf... Mobil 1 was $5/qt at my Autozone. You are getting 75w90 LS right? | My bad, I was looking at the 75w140 which is for light trucks. The 75w90 was 8 bucks. Quote: Originally Posted by yoda Jess, I bought my RedLine Gear Oil at The NAPA in town, either NAPA or PEPboys should be a place for you to look at for RedLine products. Jess the Mad-Mechanic (Mad-Scientist) with his Hybrid Ti... It'll turnout as a monster ride for sure! | Just got back from PEPboys. Manny, Moe and Jack didn't have it. I'm calling NAPA right now. Yeah Luis, it's a crazy setup for sure. Who would of thought that it would take parts from 4 different BMW models to make the Ti a monster  | | | | | 08-05-2009, 03:28 AM | #63 | | NOBODY F's with the Jesus Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura California Posts: 7,824 |
I ended up getting Mobil1 75w90 Synthetic. The only place that carries Redline gear oil locally was a motorcycle shop on the other end of town. I know a lot of people swear by Redline, but I'm willing to bet that Mobil1 is as good if not better. $11.99 a quart, it better be good! | | | | | 08-05-2009, 03:31 AM | #64 | | Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: 43609 Posts: 3,425 |
Ive used Mobil in mine, its alright i guess. OEM bmw fluid, which i think is castrol is some good stuff but its 70$ to get. __________________ 1995 Hellrot Clubsport 318ti -Gone 1996 Schwartz II Sport 357ti - 5.7L V8 LS1/6 1997 Moregrun Metallic 318ti - Gone
1998 Schwartz II sport 318ti - M50TUB25/5 | | | | | 08-05-2009, 04:03 AM | #65 | | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Central NJ Posts: 2,440 |
Read this: http://www.amsoil.com/lit/g2457.pdf Mobil 1 does very well on most tests.
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Quote: Originally Posted by pnosker | Wow Patrick, thanks for sharing that. It was a great read and I'm glad I went with mobil1. I had a suspicion that it was a little better than Redline. While Redline did do slightly better in some tests, Mobil1 was more consistant. Redline did however fail the foam test where Mobil1 came out near the top. And they didn't score the patch test, but did you see how dirty the Redline was, OMG! Mobil1 scored second only to AMSOIL! | | | | | 08-05-2009, 03:10 PM | #67 | | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Elizabeth City, NC Posts: 3,877 |
Wow is right, that study is eye opening. I had always thought that RP and Redline were about equal competitors but man was I wrong. I need to find some Amsoil to put in my diff. __________________ ~Dave~
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Well, though it was independent, take it with a grain of salt. A lot of the situations are never even close to hit in a working differential, even on a track. Though I only know of a few people who used RP, they all didn't like it for one reason or another. I say stick with Mobil 1, it's cheap, and it's good. Amsoil is good too, but it's hard to find and more expensive. | | | | | 08-06-2009, 03:30 AM | #69 | | NOBODY F's with the Jesus Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura California Posts: 7,824 | 
Ok, I mocked up the diffs next to eachother. The top one is the e28 3.46 LSD with e30 flanges and halfshafts(didn't install the e30 cover yet), the bottom one is the Ti 3.45 small case diff with Ti flanges and halfshafts. Both measured approximately 57" from end to end, the e28/e30 setup is actually about 1/2" shorter. I also measured from center of upper dif mount(between the two bolt holes, not the mount on the cover) to halfshaft end and it was exactly 29" on both diffs. So, being that the e28/e30 halfshaft/flange combo is a little shorter than the stock Ti setup, the halfshafts should go in with no problem and plenty of room to spare if the diff is bolted up first. The reason I'm bolting the diff up first is A) more room to work without the halfshafts, and B) I'm waiting for new CV boots to arrive. When I removed the stock Ti setup, the halfshafts dropped down easily off of the output flanges. So the new setup should have even more room for them to slide up onto the flanges if I install the halfshafts after the diff is hung. I think the problems Pnosker and Marv ran into was because they used the Ti halfshafts which were too long to use with the medium case diff. Using the e30 halfshafts just makes the install a little easier and might help prevent any excessive stress on the CV joints when the suspension is fully extended. Here's the pic I took of the two setups next to eachother. e28/e30 setup on top, stock Ti setup on bottom:  You can't really tell in the pic, but the medium case is much larger than the Ti diff. Also, I haven't yet installed the e30 cover on the e28 diff in the pic. | | | | | 08-19-2009, 04:51 PM | #70 | | Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: MN Posts: 46 |
I finished putting my new differential in yesterday. Here is what I used: E28 3.46 LSD E30 cover E30 flanges E30 reman axles E36 oil drain and fill plugs (same threads, but easier to remove) E36 speed sensor Everything did fit the first time, but it was very tight, and I noticed some rubbing. This rubbing was mentioned elsewhere: " Note: With the M-coupe diff cover, one of the cover bolts touches the trunk floor by a small amount. It probably isn't much of a concern as long as the diff clears the metal pieces." http://www.318ti.org/notebook/diff_c...ion/index.html Well, with my combination of parts it was definitely touching too. There was also a little rubbing near the rubber mount (mentioned before by someone on 318ti.org), and the breather hole (I hadn't heard of this before). To fix it, I ground out a bit of steel from the mount, and then ground down the bolt on the diff, and pushed the breather vent thing down a bit.    As you can see, I applied some rust blocking paint to seal up the places that had been scratched up. Everything fits great now. Installation goes a lot easier when nothing is rubbing. Note: Both of my reman axles had poor splines. I had to clean them up with a steel brush and a file to get them to go in. | | | | | 08-19-2009, 04:56 PM | #71 | | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Central NJ Posts: 2,440 |
It seems like some of the 95 and 96 cars have slight rubbing issues. No idea why. Do you have any shots of what you ground down?
EDIT: Nevermind, I see it! | | | | | 08-19-2009, 05:33 PM | #72 | | Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: MN Posts: 46 |
My 318ti's build date was 6/96, so that sounds right.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Swap_File I finished putting my new differential in yesterday. Here is what I used:
E28 3.46 LSD
E30 cover
E30 flanges
E30 reman axles
E36 oil drain and fill plugs (same threads, but easier to remove)
E36 speed sensor
Note: Both of my reman axles had poor splines. I had to clean them up with a steel brush and a file to get them to go in. | That's the exact setup that I'm running except for the speed sensor. I have an e30 sensor with the same plug as the Ti. When I swapped the cover, I pulled out the e28 speed sensor and compared it to the e30's. They were exactly the same except the connectors were different. Anyway, I just finished rebuilding my halfshafts with new grease, boots, dust caps, clamps, snap rings, flange bolts. I'd say if you paid for remanufactured e30 halfshafts, you got ripped off. I cant really tell the condition of the boots, but I can clearly see that they didn't remove the inner boot clamp which means they didn't remove the inner boot which means they couldn't of replaced the outer boot! Besides that, those are original dust caps. When you install a new cv boot kit, they come with new dust caps. Where'd you get those halfshafts? I'd go get your money back.
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