Mercruiser Outdrive Oil in Snowmobile Chain case!

[welterracer]

I have a extra quart of High Performance Mercruiser Outdrive oil in my garage that i am considering using in my sleds chaincase!

It is designed for High speeds and high loads and is ANTIFOAMING.. and it is designed to obsorbe oil instead of keeping the water separated from the oil which caused bearings to starve due to the fact that oil floats in water!


Anyone else thinking about doing this..? My only concern would be if there was a problem would yamaha still warranty the parts!

 

[RedRX1]

Sounds like a good plan if the viscosity is comparable. I would think that the only way Yami could give you a problem is if the parts were shown to fail due to lack of lubrication or excessive temperature. In my experience, the Merc stuff is top shelve. I wonder what their synthetic oil would be like for the engine. Inboards can see a lot of abuse.

 

[leaddog]

How does it act at low temp?

 

[ViperTurboPete]

Gear oil for outboards is usually 80/90. I have run it before in my Polaris, but I would consider this. Have you ever drained the foot in your outboard when it is cold outside? The stuff doesn't pour at all. I took apart the chaincase of my Poo when it was cold (no heat in my shed) and the oil was like glue. I stopped using 80/90 and switched to Amsoil gear lube and still use it to this day.

The Merc oil would be fine once you hit operating temps, but I would definitely go with synthetic. I did after seeing the outboard oil in the cold. With the temps we have in Jan/Feb forget about it.

In regards to the anti-foaming part...I don't think it is necessary...water doesn't usually get into the chaincase. Necessary for the outboards though.

Just my thought.

 

[riverrat]

I put it in my sled this spring when I drained the case. I am concerned about the viscosity though. Does any one think it will be a problem? Maybe I should change it back to Yamaha lube???????

 

[yamadoo]

I would be very concerned about low temp viscosity, that stuff is thick in even as warm as the thirties..........I was trying to fill the lower unit on an old outboard one spring morning. I would not use it in the sled to much risk for saving 5 bucks on the Amsoil synthetic.
My 2 cents
Yamadoo

 

[Sled Dog]

Any synthetic gear lube will out perform it. Nothing beats synthetic simple as that and for something that uses so little oil the better the oil performs the better.

 

[adirondac blue]

TRANSMISSION FLUID

 

[thebest]

i run outboard synthetic oil all the winter, and have no problem at all, before i switched oil , every time at w/o smell burn oil and the level go down with outboard synthetic no more problem , and i run it at -30C with no problem. thebest

 

[welterracer]

as long as you warm your sled first i dont see a problem with the visocosity!

The high performance outdrive oil is synthetic.. thats why its $18 a quart!