Decided to change the diff oil today after coming home from work. Pretty straight forward as long as you have some strength left after a hard day at work.
Undid the filler bolt first in case I couldn't get it undone. As soon as I unscrewed the filler bolt the fluid started to flow out from it. Either the car wasn't level enough or the workshop who worked on the diff decided to overfill it a little. No probs, I already had a small container ready.
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| Filler plug & drain plug undone |
I then proceeded to undo the drain bolt and it was actually quite easy to undo, also magnet on the drain plug bolt had collected some material. Will compare this with the amount collected in the next flush after a sprint event.
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| Metal shaving on the magnet |
The fluid that came out of it is supposively the same oil that I'm putting in according to the workshop receipt and it looks pretty dark and dirty. Hopefully it won't look like this next flush and this is just a breaking in of new plates.
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| Quite a difference in oil colour |
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| Hopefully not as bad next time |
About 600ml of old fluid came out so pumped in the same amount plus a couple of quick pumps when it started to flow out of the filler hole.
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| Pump it! pump it! |
I wanted to do the transfer case as well but did not have the strength to crack open the filler plug, photo quality suffered a little too...so next time.
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