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Originally Posted by Ol'Smokey
Well, this is my first Mercedes but I have worked on a lot of 80's trucks before that have been maybe 50% low on gear oil and have run fine for thousands of miles like that.
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What's your definition of "run fine"?
If the diff runs for 10K and develops noise due to excessive wear on the splines............is that "running fine"?
In reality, you have no idea if they "ran fine" unless you had sufficient data that proves they can go 100K on 1/2 the oil quantity.
And, if you had that data...........why wouldn't the manufacturer have produced the vehicle to operate with 1/2 the oil quantity?