Thread: Oils

Originally Posted by shack

Is it one of those whines that you can hear and nobody else can?!

I often hear things no one else can... hopefully it's ok.

I think pretty much.

So went for a drive today. Got into the whine speed. (around 80 +-). Put it in forth. Still whining. Put it in neutral.. still whining. I think 5th is ok. (facepalm).

Must be something else. The centre diff was recently replaced with an ashcroft ATB and nothing changed.

But let me say the gearbox is changing delightfully!

So making progress …..changed my diff oils and all good …..

now want to do the gearbox and transfer …

my transfer has a small persistent leak ……not yet decided if I want to do the expense of fixing it or just monitoring it to see if it gets worse ……then fixing it

so question …….

is it worth doing the gearbox oil change if a little later I decide to get the transfer box dropped to fix the leak ………..ie will dropping the transfer box mean that the gearbox oil will also need to be replaced …….so would I be wasting my time …and oil ……or are they pretty much self contained pools of oil

sorry….. but I’m a very novice mechanic ………...and loving it …..

Removing the transfer case to work in it, doesn't need the gearbox oil to be drained.

If their due for an oil change then change it, neither hold much oil.

Tony

as already mentioned, dont put off changing fluids on the gearbox or transfer case.

Yearly or every 20K is what i recommend customers do, oil is cheap rebuilds are not.

To day I changed my gearbox oil ……was quite surprised that it drained out 2.8 lire’s of oil
….some mechanic at some time must have not done his homework ………refilled it up with recommended refill level of 2,2 litres …….manual says full level should contain 2.4 litres


then tried the transfer case but the location of the fill plug has me stumped …its in behind ..the handbrake drum ? I have the right size sump socket ( 13 mm. ) and I can just get that in to the fill nut but can’t get the holding wrench in there ………I’ve tried every thing in my tool box including an offset extension but no go …….the brake drum just stops any straight alignment to get some thing on to the sump sochet …don’t want to damage the nut so need some tool that lets me in there ……..there must be a trick to getting at it ……..
the drain sump is easy ….. but the fill nut is in a very bad place …..any suggestions welcome

Originally Posted by landoman

To day I changed my gearbox oil ……was quite surprised that it drained out 2.8 lire’s of oil
….some mechanic at some time must have not done his homework ………refilled it up with recommended refill level of 2,2 litres …….manual says full level should contain 2.4 litres


then tried the transfer case but the location of the fill plug has me stumped …its in behind ..the handbrake drum ? I have the right size sump socket ( 13 mm. ) and I can just get that in to the fill nut but can’t get the holding wrench in there ………I’ve tried every thing in my tool box including an offset extension but no go …….the brake drum just stops any straight alignment to get some thing on to the sump sochet …don’t want to damage the nut so need some tool that lets me in there ……..there must be a trick to getting at it ……..
the drain sump is easy ….. but the fill nut is in a very bad place …..any suggestions welcome

I use the male square end of an old extension bar the spring ball has fallen from. Just get the angle grinder and grind a groove in the 4 corners back from the end a bit. It makes a knob that acts like a uni joint so can be used at an angle. Works a treat.

Originally Posted by landoman

To day I changed my gearbox oil ……was quite surprised that it drained out 2.8 lire’s of oil
….some mechanic at some time must have not done his homework ………refilled it up with recommended refill level of 2,2 litres …….manual says full level should contain 2.4 litres


then tried the transfer case but the location of the fill plug has me stumped …its in behind ..the handbrake drum ? I have the right size sump socket ( 13 mm. ) and I can just get that in to the fill nut but can’t get the holding wrench in there ………I’ve tried every thing in my tool box including an offset extension but no go …….the brake drum just stops any straight alignment to get some thing on to the sump sochet …don’t want to damage the nut so need some tool that lets me in there ……..there must be a trick to getting at it ……..
the drain sump is easy ….. but the fill nut is in a very bad place …..any suggestions welcome

My 95 Defender has a 1/2 inch female full plug.
A 1/2 inch socket extension fits in it, as mentioned by 123rover59 a ball end one would be better.

Tony