Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Originally Posted by johnp38

Attachment 195106 Picked this up today after I scoured the interwebs when the penrite mobil shell oil selector guides didn't tell me much re the transfer case oil.

So going by this forum and others seemed a choice of royal purple, ravenol or s-tec oil0005 and maybe some we don't have here.

The guys down the local parts shop said they stopped selling grape juice as the racer crowd were going off it due to some concerns or other, they had nothing listed for transfer case, and I had rang Penrite and asked if they had a suitable but unlisted alternative and they said no.

I did read somewhere that someone had used the Penrite BMV stuff but being a newbie to this clutch pack for transfer cases stuff I settled on the Ravenol as it seemed like the common choice and I could get it in Adelaide.

I did see the Rock Oil stuff too but it was online only and seemed much of a muchness and once again local availability won out.

Now who is going to chime in and tell me I screwed up, coz I'm not doing it till tomorrow so speak up now.

Just checked my "notes", Ravenol DTF-1 is fine, as is Shell TF-0753
My notes also say that the genuine LR Xsnfer oil is the Shell.

Took 10 minutes to do the pump and most of that was removing and replacing 2 screws and 2 push pins from the wheel arch.

Didn't entirely go according to plan. I ended wearing a couple of litres of washer fluid.

There's an intermittent whine now. Sounds very much like the whine from the water pump, but quieter and comes and goes from traffic light to traffic light. I'd never have heard it with the water pump whine.

Only 4 things left. Tensioner, idler, PS pump or fan pulley.