Gearbox Oil - Dipstick
11 June 2005, 04:11 PM
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Gearbox Oil - Dipstick
Hi
I have just located another dipstick under the intercooler - I am assuming its the gearbox oil??
It hasn't got a yellow top so assume its not meant to be checked often? It's hidden quite well too!!
Anyway, the oil smells like Automatic Trans. Fluid ... but is clear.
The oil seems to just about touch the stick, engine/gearbox are cold, level ground ................................
Do I need to top up? What with? Will differring types mix? What is the amount the box takes? (MY00 Classic) .... wheres the drain hole? and where do you fill it up, the dipstick hole?
Slightly worried!
Pete
I have just located another dipstick under the intercooler - I am assuming its the gearbox oil??
It hasn't got a yellow top so assume its not meant to be checked often? It's hidden quite well too!!
Anyway, the oil smells like Automatic Trans. Fluid ... but is clear.
The oil seems to just about touch the stick, engine/gearbox are cold, level ground ................................
Do I need to top up? What with? Will differring types mix? What is the amount the box takes? (MY00 Classic) .... wheres the drain hole? and where do you fill it up, the dipstick hole?
Slightly worried!
Pete
11 June 2005, 05:07 PM
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Just found out that the drain plug is actually towards the rear of the car, that it takes about 4 litres of gearbox oil and that dipstick SHOULD have some oil on it!!
But, can I mix oils??
Pete
But, can I mix oils??
Pete
11 June 2005, 09:29 PM
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doesnt the millers website tell you what oil?
i find it apt and slightly amusing you starting a thread about dipsticks.
i find it apt and slightly amusing you starting a thread about dipsticks.
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12 June 2005, 02:51 PM
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Yes i used 75w90 semi synthetic gearbox oil and had no problems.
Dipstick should markings on it? to give you the correct level.
Any yes you fill it through the dipstick hole.
The drain plug is at the lowest point of the box easily seen from below.
cheers
Russell
Dipstick should markings on it? to give you the correct level.
Any yes you fill it through the dipstick hole.
The drain plug is at the lowest point of the box easily seen from below.
cheers
Russell
12 June 2005, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by wrx davs
hi pete
just exactly where did you find the filler plug for the gearbox oil ?
Cheers
just exactly where did you find the filler plug for the gearbox oil ?
Cheers
3Foot from the rear of the car apparently?????? Didn't make sense to me either!! More like 3 yards maybe??
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12 June 2005, 10:54 PM
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Well I've looked and looked and it ain't there!!
Tell me what page then??
Says all about rear diff, front diff, nothing about gearbox!!
Pete
Tell me what page then??
Says all about rear diff, front diff, nothing about gearbox!!
Pete
14 June 2005, 12:44 AM
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My 99 manual issued May 99.
Page 10-24 Manual transmission oil -checking level and oil grade, viscosity info.
Page 11-5- capacities.
It doesn't tell you the location of drain plug but come on, an engineer of your analytical ability can surely find a little old drain plug.
Gotta take undertrays off first. Jack up rear while draining to empty.If old oil is blackish, panic! Drainplug has a magnet on it. Gearteeth attached is quite normal.
Some here suggest slight overfilling.
HTH.
Page 10-24 Manual transmission oil -checking level and oil grade, viscosity info.
Page 11-5- capacities.
It doesn't tell you the location of drain plug but come on, an engineer of your analytical ability can surely find a little old drain plug.
Gotta take undertrays off first. Jack up rear while draining to empty.If old oil is blackish, panic! Drainplug has a magnet on it. Gearteeth attached is quite normal.
Some here suggest slight overfilling.
HTH.
14 June 2005, 08:40 AM
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Right, I'll overfil it ...... I've taken copies of this thread just in case of any compensation claim.
Cheers - the dealer put Shell SL Gear Oil in May2004 ........ can't find out anything about it??
Pete
Cheers - the dealer put Shell SL Gear Oil in May2004 ........ can't find out anything about it??
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14 June 2005, 05:14 PM
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OK, found it in the Manual now - 10-22, humble apologies ..... however, it also states that it should have a yellow top???
Has anyone got a yellow top on their Transmission Oil Dipstick?? No wonder I had never noticed it before ... without that yellow top its pretty much invisible under the intercooler!
Pete
Has anyone got a yellow top on their Transmission Oil Dipstick?? No wonder I had never noticed it before ... without that yellow top its pretty much invisible under the intercooler!
Pete
14 June 2005, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Vegescoob
It doesn't tell you the location of drain plug but come on, an engineer of your analytical ability can surely find a little old drain plug.
HTH.
HTH.
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14 June 2005, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by p1mark
pete.
my MY00 P1 is just a bent bit of wire in a ring shape. (note non egineering terminology used)
my MY00 P1 is just a bent bit of wire in a ring shape. (note non egineering terminology used)
Some so-called Egineers carnt evin spil it!!
Yeah, mines a bent bit of wire ..... no wonder I missed it all these years??
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15 June 2005, 06:44 AM
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paint it yellow. i should think at your age myopia is in advanced stages,and the onset of dementia is imminent. may help you remember and see where it is the next time!
16 June 2005, 10:21 AM
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Whats egineering???
Yeah, mines a bent bit of wire ..... no wonder I missed it all these years??
Pete
Yeah, mines a bent bit of wire ..... no wonder I missed it all these years??
Pete
Did you get a handbook with the car? If so, did you read any of it? On second thought maybe you should'nt If you read the bit about how to change the oil filter I can see you being tempted to start another "Changing the oil" thread! So leave it where it is, propping up the short leg on the kitchen table?
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16 June 2005, 01:13 PM
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My handbook says it has a yellow top ............ it hasn't.
So it got missed by me, until now I have had well paid slaves to work on my car - so, you wouldn't expect me to see it would you??
You know what Subaru says about oil changes ..... and it ain't ****!!!
Pete
So it got missed by me, until now I have had well paid slaves to work on my car - so, you wouldn't expect me to see it would you??
You know what Subaru says about oil changes ..... and it ain't ****!!!
Pete
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