2.8 4x4 Auto Box

[luxtonm]

I've got a 1998 2.8 galaxy with 4x4 auto box.

 

Could somebody point me in the right direction for changing the gearbox oil.

 

I've searched the forum but cant find any advice for changing the gearbox oil on the 4x4 variant.

 

Looks like there are some horror stories about the autobox, is the 4x4 any more reliable?

I bought the car as a tow car, I kind of get the feeling it was the wrong choice to have the autobox, but I couldn't any manual 4x4 Galaxys

 

Mike

[f0ster]

hello

changing the oil in an auto is never very successfull due to the fact that they can quite often hold 12/15 litres but when you drain the box you only get out half if you are lucky, in austrailia they use a charging station, you connect it up to the oil cooler pipes and it does the rest , we devised our own method, buy a 25 litre drum of auto box oil, remove the oil cooler pipe from the radiator and let the engine tick over, while it is slowly pumping out the oil from the pipe, you keep topping it up via the fill pipe/hole this way you get the oil changed completly, it uses more oil this way but you get the oil clean, you then drop the oil pan and replace the filter, and you have new oil and a new filter, it is a bit long winded but autos fail because they never get their oil changed fully