Reply to "ZF GEAR OIL"

Jack,

Yes, the -1 case has the hole mid side case. To muck up the waters WORSE(!!!!) DeT installed the Pantera style dipstick thingy in the side!!!

When filled to what that particular dipstick would indicate.....you're about a gallon of lube too much and will COOK the trans....

Ask our events director about that one! Some well meaning Pantera experts helped him out at Concourso or Monterey 2016 by telling him that he needed to fill it up until oil came out of that side hole...... He made it about 75-85 miles towards home, but his ZF was acting up, was smokin hot...so he went the final 20 or so on a flatbed!

Look at picture...where dipstick fits into hole on side....then far to right, you can just make out where main shaft is, about 2.5" lower than the hole!!!! Filling ALL of that up with oil is a bad bad thing.....!

Apparently Lloyd has a bucket/box full of these stupid devices.....probably off of every -1 that he's ever worked on!!!

The stock -1 dipstick was actually a rod that extended off of the vent tube assembly that screws in the top!

If you examine the ZF manual for a -1, you will see a crude drawing/picture/representation of the thing! Why our -1's don't come with it???? Who knows....

Steve