Gear Box Oil Change

[charles]

This weekend I will change the gear oil. I bought 2 l Ford spec gear oil and a 8 mm PVC tube to fill the gearbox from above.

Seems to me a good thing to do, the car is 8 years old and when checking the level, I found what metal pieces around the plug, probably from wear.

Does the gearbox drain plug a new washer?

[Ivor_E_Tower]

Always a good idea to fit a new washer - assuming that the old one will come off (hasn't been squashed and distorted so that it no longer passes over the bolt's thread?)

[seatkid]

Not sure there is any benefit in changing gear oil nowadays - don't know if the gearbox has a magnetic drain plug either.

Make sure the oil is correct - IIRC the VTX box is similar to the sierra in it requires a very special oil (looks more like ATF?) - ordinary gearbox oil will see it fail in a very short time.

[charles]

did the gear box change for the manual 2.3 gearbox last month.

Hereby the report.

Followed the Haynes manual instructions:

There is no washer at the drain plug and no at the filling plug.

Just to be sure I fitted a copper washer at the drain plug.

2 Liters of gear oil came out, did not find very much metal wear in it.

I re-filled it with 2 liters of new oil via a funnel/transparant PVC tube from above the engine bay, the other side of the tube sticking into the filling hole. I bought 2 bottles at the ford dealer, it is red coloured oil (eur 17/liter).

The gear change did improve, it is gearing as butter. :lol:

[Ivor_E_Tower]

I think we can understand what you mean!

 

Glad it went well and that you are pleased with your work on the car..