Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 01:49 pm, by: Gary Rollason(Garyr)
Found an oil leak in my R154. Looks like it's coming from the drain plug. Just want to confirm it's the drain without removing it and dropping the oil.
This is looking up at the box from the drivers side. Is this the drain plug?
If so where's the fill plug? I've had a pretty good look but can't see it. I want to change the oil coz I don't know how much I've lost. Did a bit of a search and came up with 3.5L of Redline LWSP, is this correct oil to use? And where's the best place to get it?
Monday, March 16, 2009 - 06:43 am, by: Gary Rollason(Garyr)
Great thanks Andrew.
Finally, what's the best (easiest) way to get the oil into the box. I'll be doing this at home on car stands and don't have an oil pump to pump it in with.
Monday, March 16, 2009 - 07:00 am, by: Andrew Meiers(Acmtt)
Buy a thomb thumb pump. I think thats what it was called. A small pump that is on a litre bottle with a long clear hose running from it. $20 Unscrew the lid that the pump is on, put that pump lid onto the redline bottle, insert hose end into filling hole of gearbox, and pump until she overflows out the filling hole, replace bung, clean up overflow. Its slow, but foolproof.
Friday, March 20, 2009 - 08:26 pm, by: Gary Rollason(Garyr)
Anyone know how much oil the box holds? I put in as much as I could pump from the bottle but it didn't overflow. 1 us gallon = 3.8l. Still, more than came out! There was a bit over three litres in it. Still pretty clean and no metal bits. How much more do I need?
Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 10:25 pm, by: Andrew Meiers(Acmtt)
If the car is level when you are filling it, keep going till it overflows back out the filling hole. I recall not having much left when i did it as well.