oil everwhere

polokris · Post by **polokris** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:48 pm

its not gushin out... or even drippin for that matter..... BUT there is ALOT of Oil around the gearbox... is there a seal that can be replaced by the Gear linkage?

jus alot of oil around that area, and from where it connects to the engine........

any help would be kool!

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:13 pm

Yeah, I think there's an oil seal on the shift rod that quite often goes. Whatever you do don't let it run out of oil

polokris · Post by **polokris** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:25 pm

uh ooohhh.....

where do i top up the gearbox??? what oil, and where do i get that bit from??

(never touched the box b4, or tryed anything to do with it! )

novice!

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:25 am

Oil as specified in haynes, think it's 75w80? Check before you take my word on it though. The fill / drain plugs are on the side of the gearbox. Right side of the gearbox from the front of the car, there are two big old plugs with 17mm hex heads, one's the fill, the other's the drain. You'll need a bit of hose and a funnel to pour the oil in.
Might be worth doing an oil change while you're fiddling about there, the gearbox oil will be pretty degraded after all these years.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:04 pm

would be extreamly wise to change the oil

after finding a gearbox in the scrapyard and draining the oil me and dad realised it was the best thing we could have done

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:30 pm

80w90 mate. good time to do it is the summer as the stuff is really like toffee in the winter... (or more appropriately, lithium grease

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allegedly - in the other gearbox post (or three) it's worth your while seeing if you can pour it in thru the speedo cable hole. open the top "filling" bolt and fill thru the cable hole til it oozes out the fill hole.

(as ever, make sure the top bolt can be undone and replaced before touching the lower one!)