Diff oil in 95' Hilux 2.8 d

I use penrite for the limited slip diff and castol for the front diff and gears, i am thinking of going sythetic in the gear box to over come the notchy feeling when its cold.

If you can get an owners manual it will have all the volumes needed.

Hi

Any quality brand will do the job.
HP90 Hypoid for the front
LS80/90 or HP90 for the rear depending on LSD or not
Most of the Toyotas will either have a label or the painted leters close to the filler/level plug
Ray

yeah sorry, mines an 80 series cruiser, sticker next to dive filler that says LSD oil or something like that. ring dealer and they should be able to advise if that model had an LSD.

Actually if you go to the caltex website and under "find an Oil" it lists all the capacities of heaps of vehicles.
I just checked it out. pretty handy if you don't have book.

Hello all

Chubbs here

just replaced the diff fluid on my 89 and my brother 96 hiluxs we used about 6 lites or so for each car
it has to be LSD if you under at your diff there will be or should be a sticker saying LSD fluid only
and let me tell you there isn't much room at the filling hole at the front we found the easiest way is get a squeeze sauce bottle that you put sauce in and fill the diff that's alot easier then using a funnel.
and just in case you didn't know you fill it until it comes out of the fill hole

hope this helps

CHEERS
CHUBBS

You can get diff filler pumps cheap at auto shops, makes the job alot easier, especially for lsd oil.

Hi Milamber,
from my Gregorys service manual.

Rear; LSD 2.2lt SAE90 GL5 hypoid gear oil for LSD

Front; SAE 90 GL5 hypoid gear oil, 2.3lt

shortly after changing all oils I came across a "drill powered pump" (about $30) which will pump water, oils about 1000lt p/h. although I have'nt used it to date, it's got to be better than gravity. Hope this helps :)
Regards
Wisey

to save any confusion re lsd or not, use LS90 in both diffs.
LS oil can be used in conventional diffs but conventional 80w/90 cannot be used in LS diffs. the viscosities are very similar.
if you have diff locks, you should do some homework and talk with some that do, as some require a better standard oil than what is offered in a normal 80w/90 or LS90, not always the case though.
regards, russell