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Originally Posted by hayden55
Not a ton. From class we had a little tribology portion in mechanical system design and the big weights weren't hugely different. I'm sure you could find a "temp and viscosity thickness" chart and compare different weights at x temp for your reference as it relates to your transmission. Main take away: gas mileage will only vary a small percent wise, but the friction goes up and decreases the life cycle rating if the bearing/wear tolerances are designed to maintain a certain gap /psi rating with the spec weight at x temperature and you put in a thicc er fluid or cool the fluid too much. Think: Toyota doesn't recommend 0w-20 in their 0w-16 designed motors.
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Thanks. So you are saying that running this cold may actually be harmful to the transmission?