Can you change the gearbox oil by.
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Even cheaper,
Get a mate (in my case it was my dad), get the car up in the air nice and secure on stands.
Get 2 metres of clear plastic tubing from B&Q (Needs to be flexible) and a funnel.
Get under car, drain old oil.
Feed tube from engine bay, down the side of gearbox - you poke the tube into the hole, and stay there, assistant pours lovely new gear-box oil down funnel into gear box.
You get to make sure the tube stays in, and watch the pretty air bubbles go back up the tube.
Total time - approx 30-40 minutes, no mess and a "Spanner rating" of "Any old tit could do it."
Get a mate (in my case it was my dad), get the car up in the air nice and secure on stands.
Get 2 metres of clear plastic tubing from B&Q (Needs to be flexible) and a funnel.
Get under car, drain old oil.
Feed tube from engine bay, down the side of gearbox - you poke the tube into the hole, and stay there, assistant pours lovely new gear-box oil down funnel into gear box.
You get to make sure the tube stays in, and watch the pretty air bubbles go back up the tube.
Total time - approx 30-40 minutes, no mess and a "Spanner rating" of "Any old tit could do it."
There are some guides out there for doing this job - I have just done mine today, with a few hiccoughs from an amateur mechanic. Not too difficult.
1. Warm car up.
2. Get car up on four axle stands - it is important to have the car level, otherwise when it comes to filling again you will have the wrong level of oil.
3. Untighten the filler nut. This is a square nut which is best attacked with a 14mm spanner. It can be found half way up the gearbox side on the passenger side. Do this first, to prevent embarassment later.
4. Release the bottom nut, 24mm socket.
5. Drain oil.
6. Now the tricky bit - filling with fresh oil. I first tried an oil pump thingy which was next to useless and difficult to use under the car. I then switched to a small £1.99 funnel from Halfords, a cable tie and 12.5mm pipe in 1 metre length from B&Q. (I think the pipe I used is originally for ponds or something??)
7. Connect together and cable tie the funnel to something on the bulkhead near the waterwash bottle. Feed the pipe down and into the filler nut - route above the exhaust. I did this by myself without assistance from another.
8. Fill with 2 liters of oil - this took some 25 minutes waiting for the oil to flow down under gravity.
9. Tighten everything back up and you are done....
I am honestly pretty imcompetent as a mechanic, but this is easy...
This made the biggest change to my gear change. I have previously changed the gear boots and replaced the turret oil with little to no effect (except maybe a small placebo, to make me feel better for replacing all the parts and the time/ money involved!)
Mike
1. Warm car up.
2. Get car up on four axle stands - it is important to have the car level, otherwise when it comes to filling again you will have the wrong level of oil.
3. Untighten the filler nut. This is a square nut which is best attacked with a 14mm spanner. It can be found half way up the gearbox side on the passenger side. Do this first, to prevent embarassment later.
4. Release the bottom nut, 24mm socket.
5. Drain oil.
6. Now the tricky bit - filling with fresh oil. I first tried an oil pump thingy which was next to useless and difficult to use under the car. I then switched to a small £1.99 funnel from Halfords, a cable tie and 12.5mm pipe in 1 metre length from B&Q. (I think the pipe I used is originally for ponds or something??)
7. Connect together and cable tie the funnel to something on the bulkhead near the waterwash bottle. Feed the pipe down and into the filler nut - route above the exhaust. I did this by myself without assistance from another.
8. Fill with 2 liters of oil - this took some 25 minutes waiting for the oil to flow down under gravity.
9. Tighten everything back up and you are done....
I am honestly pretty imcompetent as a mechanic, but this is easy...
This made the biggest change to my gear change. I have previously changed the gear boots and replaced the turret oil with little to no effect (except maybe a small placebo, to make me feel better for replacing all the parts and the time/ money involved!)
Mike
Edited by mike9009 on Saturday 13th February 17:57
i got to stage 3 before the kids interupted play 
Probably a good thing as I was having some trouble with filler plug so i have soaked with penetrating spray rather than round it. Round 2 tomorrow, kids booked into the inlaws for an hour or 2!
One thing, Im pretty sure the filler plug is 16mm, not 14?
Probably a good thing as I was having some trouble with filler plug so i have soaked with penetrating spray rather than round it. Round 2 tomorrow, kids booked into the inlaws for an hour or 2!One thing, Im pretty sure the filler plug is 16mm, not 14?
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