Eni Rotra GL 85W-140

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85W-140 gear oil rated API GL-5 for heavily loaded hypoid axles and the drivelines of heavy machinery.

Classification
Product line Eni Rotra 21 oils
SAE viscosity 85W-140What SAE means
Intended use gear and transmission
API class What API means
Approvals
Meets the requirements of What an approval means
Typical properties
Viscosity at 40 °C 320 mm²/s
Viscosity at 100 °C 28.2 mm²/s
Viscosity index 100
Brookfield viscosity at -12 °C 120000 mPa·s
Pour point -15 °C
Flash point 215 °C
Density 910 kg/m³

The car maker has not officially approved the entries in the “Meets the requirements of” row.

Description

Eni Rotra GL 85W-140 is a heavy-grade gear oil from the Rotra line for hypoid axles under heavy load and for the gearboxes, steering boxes, reduction units and power take-offs of heavy machinery. Its extreme-pressure film withstands shock loads.

The oil is rated API GL-5 and meets MIL-L-2105D; it holds no official carmaker approvals.

Typical figures: viscosity 320 mm²/s at 40 °C and 28.2 mm²/s at 100 °C, viscosity index 100, pour point -15 °C, flash point 215 °C, density 910 kg/m³ and low-temperature viscosity 120,000 mPa·s at -12 °C.

Application

Heavily loaded hypoid axles, plus conventional gearboxes, steering boxes, reduction units and power take-offs of heavy machinery such as farm and earth-moving equipment.

Worth knowing

MIL-L-2105D, the second entry in the list after API GL-5, is a military specification that was replaced by MIL-PRF-2105E in 1995; that one was in turn withdrawn in 2005 in favour of the SAE J2360 standard. Among the Rotra 85W-140 oils, only Rotra Truck Gear 85W-140 claims SAE J2360, and its entry also lists API GL-4 and API MT-1. This oil’s entry has no ZF, Volvo or other component-maker numbers. In the same line, ZF approvals belong to Rotra MP 85W-140, which has API GL-5 and the same MIL-L-2105D claim: the official approvals are ZF TE-ML 05A, ZF TE-ML 12S, ZF TE-ML 16D and ZF TE-ML 21A, which count where the unit’s documentation names one of these classes specifically.

AGIP Novecento 85W-140, from a different line, has identical typical figures: 28.2 mm²/s at 100 °C, viscosity index 100, pour point -15 °C and flash point 215 °C; in the codes, only MIL-L-2105D tells them apart. The history of the move from military specifications to SAE J2360, and why GL-5 does not replace GL-4 in a gearbox with synchronisers, is in the article on the GL-4 and GL-5 categories and the SAE J2360 standard.

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