Re: Compensator Grease

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2008/3/12 14:53:21

The planetary gearsets in the TL box go in both directions, for up and down of course. Visualize one of the planetary gears rotating across the outer ring gear, and squeezing the grease out of the way on it's transit. If you have a strongly channeling grease, on the return trip there would essentially be an absence of grease because it had been displaced, so you'd have more metal-to-metal contact. A non-channeling grease would have enough movement to somewhat flow back into the cavity to provide lubrication for the return trip. But please don't ask me how to tell one from the other, other than by observation.