Decided to give the Lander its long overdue service today. All really easy it was but the work of moments to change the filters and oil as it always is.
Decided this time tho, to try and overcome a slight annoyance from a slow gearbox. So I sourced some thinner quite expensive fully synth gear oil.
Having looked at the box, its has the filler plug up high in an awkward place, hard to fill, so I purchased a Draper "Oil suction tool" basically a giant steel syringe with a plastic tube - Holds 500ml of oil! That will do the biz.
Having to drain 2.2 litres wouldn't be a hardship so I cut out the side of a plastic 5 litre can and would drain into there.
annoyance no 1, don't you just hate the fact the 'box takes 2.2 litres? Only comes in 1 litre bottles, so you have to buy three with 0.8 litres left that will probably never get used! Grrrr
The drain plug was on the side of the box, WOW have you seen how far 2.2 litres of thick gear oil can squirt? missed the drain can by a country mile, diverted everywhere by the sub frame. Luckily its now dripping on the plastic sheet I cleverly laid down.
Now I dip my sucker into my fantastic new oil, and suck. Useless ruddy thing can only suck up about 20ml and then leaks air through the other end. Damn this is taking for ever, sucking up 20ml of oil and then pumping out 15ml into the box.
Suddenly it works! Yeeha 500ml sucks into this thing, stick me tube in the box and pump.
Did you know it has a small hole in the handle end? to allow air to pass? do you know how far 200 ml of oil thats leaked past the seal can travel? As i suck up the next batch of new oil, it shoots out like a high pressure fountain straight into my eyes.
Anyway, after an hour I get the box filled, the fill and drain plugs torqued up. Gather up my tools, and take them back to the garage. On my way back to the car I glimpse the plastic sheet with 2 litres of gearbox oil in its folds raise up on the breeze and sail in the air, ending up flapping against the house windows.......
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