Thread: What did you do on your Perentie Today.

Originally Posted by Chris078

finally got around to changing the steering box oil.
Well, changed the half that I could get out with my syringe + irrigation hose suction setup. Got about 200ml of very thin and very black crap out of it.

got a quick drive in before the storms arrived. steering is now considerably lighter. Well over due. Will do it a a few more times until what I pull out looks reasonably new.

seems a stupid design to me, not having a drain plug.
Also drained the winch, which I have never used due to the drive shafts being very loose. got some lovely looking gold chips in what was left of the oil (not much). Looks like I'll be pulling that off soon to.

Is it the same as the old series units where you removed 1 bolt and sucked out/replaced the oil through the same hole?? Or is there another way to do it?
I've never really thought about it until I read your post!!
Edit - I just went and looked and noticed a yellow painted bolt head which I assume is the fill/drain point. What oil does it take? ep90 or ep140? I'm guessing ep90.

Originally Posted by dranoweb

I managed to miss-appropriate some work time thurs/fri and took my perentie on a 2 day routine maintenance run to remote paging sites.
Along the way I managed to pick up a No5 trailer after a short ferry hop.

It towes like a ****ed off kangaroo when it's empty. Thinking tire pressure might get lowered.
(Edit - profainity filter makes that seem worse than it was)


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A good upgrade is to fabricate some shock mounts and put a set on it. Makes it much better mannered on corrugated roads. Somewhere I have a photo of my ex RAAF No.5 that I put shockies on - will see if I can find it.

Yes shocks have been suggested by a few people and seems like a good idea.
work is busy as hell now so that may happen later.

As for steering oil - that's something I should do.

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Originally Posted by Aussie Jeepster

Is it the same as the old series units where you removed 1 bolt and sucked out/replaced the oil through the same hole?? Or is there another way to do it?
I've never really thought about it until I read your post!!
Edit - I just went and looked and noticed a yellow painted bolt head which I assume is the fill/drain point. What oil does it take? ep90 or ep140? I'm guessing ep90.

As far as I can tell, it's just one bolt on top. I managed to suck out about 200 ml of the 450ml capacity with my suction setup. As I said earlier, I'll do it another 2-3 times to try and get the fluid as close to new as possible.



The book says it takes OEP-220. I put some 80/90 EP gear oil in it (same stuff I put in the diffs). Pretty sure that's the right stuff. can't be any worse than the gunk that was in it.

Provided there isn't any bronze in there.

Pretty sure there isn't.

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Pulled off the tarp, reinstalled the freshly-charged battery and fired her up.

See my other post for questions...

Originally Posted by Chris078

As far as I can tell, it's just one bolt on top. I managed to suck out about 200 ml of the 450ml capacity with my suction setup. As I said earlier, I'll do it another 2-3 times to try and get the fluid as close to new as possible.



The book says it takes OEP-220. I put some 80/90 EP gear oil in it (same stuff I put in the diffs). Pretty sure that's the right stuff. can't be any worse than the gunk that was in it.

My level was fairly low so I topped up with some EP90 and nulon G70. I'll drive a bit then get dcreative with some suction to suck it all out and replace, I didn't even know it was top upable!!!!
Nice to learn something new.

Originally Posted by Bearman

Got any pics of what the brass chips look like Chris. If they are only flakey stuff it might be ok. Probably off the worm gear wheel which is made of brass type compound. Does the winch still work ok under load?

They looked like gold flakes, like a chip had been broken off something and then squashed out between some sort of rollers.

I've never actually used the winch. I'm pretty sure there is something more substantially wrong in there. It appears to be slightly off centre. when you roll it by hand, the vertical pieces of metal on the drum that keep the cable in position hit on the stationary part of the winch.

I've never used it mainly because the driveshafts for it are loose (you can rattle them around in the pillow blocks and I'm pretty sure the Universals are cactus too.
not sure how expensive they are to repair. I may just pull the whole lot off and replace it with an electric one if it's all too hard.
I'm not really a fan of the PTO setup anyway, so it won't be any great loss for me.