is it an easyish job to do as i wanna do it at the weekend but cant find my new bible (haynes manual)

 

dont think so, aint you gotta drill it ?

 

u have to drain it out through the drive shaft hole, to completely empty it its a gearbox out job

 

fook it it can wait then

 

jack the fooker up
disconnect antirollbar+remove tca from chassis
lever out driveshaft

you should have it done fairly quickly

 

longer driveshaft is easier to remove btw, then ya need a 8mil allen key and then fund the allenkey bol on the fron of the gearbox and refill , not too fast though !!!!, then wait 30 mins and fill some more ( as the 5th gear needs to fill up with oil )

 

As said above, pump the old fluid out

 

bear in mind youll need a small 'squirty' 1 litre bottle, then a large bottle of fluid. Ya fill it up using the small squirty one topping that up with the big one

 

or use a long tube+funnel

 

does it matter if you over fill?

 

if youve got a long tube and funnel

 

you cant overfill
i always fill it up jacked up-get slightly more oil in

 

You can't

 

its supposed to be 10mm below the bottom of the allen key filler cap.

 

Me and a mate changed mine after the old one shat itself...and to be honest it turned out to be a bit of a job! Easy gettin it out...but gettin it back in's a bitch if u've only got axle stands!!

 

Didnt ya have a jack?

Changing the oil is a bitch???? Hope ya never have to change the clutch cable

 

Ive always found it quite easy to do, is a bit tricky filling up but its okay.

 

oops..read it wrong, thought u were on about changin the actual gearbox!!

 

lol no

 

messy job

 

cheers, driveshafts you say to my wife driveshafts are a swear word, due to when i sold my cossie shafts the guy who bought em got oil over his shoes, then walked over my wifes brand new cream carpet

sounds a bit tricky, but will give it a go, just watch out for the
"oh shit my gearbox fell apart post"

 

get drill .. drill hole into lower casing slowly .. get all oily .. tap out a thread get bolt and refit .. refill with some oil .. allow to settle .. remove bolt .. get oily again .. all swarf etc should come out .. refill and off you go ..

well thats what i did and it worked ... the theory was that the ally swarf is alot softer than the large metal gears

just remember i aint no tecnical person

 

These boxes do have a drain plug.
Its a stud about 60mm long right at the front of the box, i think it sits in the middle of the front mounting bracket.
Remove it and lower the car back down and all the oil will drain out.

Re-fil using the filler plug that is directly above the drain plug.

Matt.

 

As Eagle, drilling a hole, is the only way to remove all the old

In this photo you can see the drain plug, ignore the oil!!!!!!!



Cheers

Steve

 

That's no RST gearbox.

 

 

I have fitted drain plugs to all my gearboxes in the past which does make it extremely easy to empty the oil, i have actually welded a threaded boss onto the casing so that it retains the thickness. To get the oil back in i use a type of 'easy bleed' arrangement and a pumped up lorry tyre. this makes iit very easy and quick to fill

 

wots all this drilling buisness? theres a drain plug on the S2 gearbox

 

yes there is a drain plug.. however i dont think ALL the oil drains out of the box with this undone.. never done mine any harm.. the box's dont last long enough to warrant an oil change anyway!

 

 

sod it lets just see if my box will last the beds regional day