Ok I've searched a good bit and the results have been a bit conflicted. So I'll ask the audience.
I'm running right up on 369,000 miles and will soon be swapping out the oil in the diffs and transfer case. I know a lot of guys use the fancy synthetics and that's great, but I don't have the cash to drop on synthetics, plus I don't want anything to start leaking since I'm a "high mileage" guy. I figure if it made it to nearly 400,000 miles without synthetic oil—I'll just go ahead and stick with old fashioned dinosaur juice.
So my main question is, can I run the more common 80-90 conventional in all three (diffs & transfer) without issue? Or is there some reason that I need to stick to 75-90 which is hard to find in conventional.
I know I'm going against the grain here as most people seem to use 75-90 synthetics, but again, I have a long list of maintence things to get through and need to save cash where I safely can.
Thoughts?