ok, so I drained my gearbox oil...ready to put new oil in...only problem is that filler plug is in a bitch of a location..... is there any easier way to fill? I cant exactly pour it straight from the bottle into the plug, considering the angle of the plug and what a mess it would make...any good ideas/ways ppl do it?

Also..roughly how much to rebuild gearbox.. I think my syncro's are gone/going....

 

Easy as buying a $10 gear oil pump. Youll play hell trying to put oil in without one. Youll be laying under the car cussing so load youll attract all the croc's in the area. (JK- I watch too much tv) Looks like a beautiful place in your sig)

 

use a squeezy bottle (washing up liquid or somthing) and a length of flexible tubing .. takes ages but its cheap

 

You can use the squeezy bottle trick from inside the car too (Through the shifter hole)

Doesnt take as long that way

 

If you have an air compressor you can put a small hole in the bottom of the bottle and use the compressed air at about 5psi to push it out through the tubing. This is how I did mine and also refilled the rearend the same way. It works great. Just make sure you have one extra bottle that you don't put a hole in so you can save the left over fluid.

 

I use an old turkey baster for my differential. Works fairly decent. I got the quickie lube place to fill my tranny.

 

This only works if you have a SA, the FB tranny has a remote mounted shifter with its own oil, so it won't work on the later cars. Heres a question, how much gear oil will a tranny take to fill?

 

i believe it is 2.7 quarts.

 

do what i do, get the cheapest funnel get 3 feet long hose and stick one end to the funnel end and the other in the tranny hole. the way i doit is i open the hood and run the hose down to were the tranny filler hole is. it works great, fast and without a mess

 

A buddy of mine poured tranny fluid into an old Volvo PV544 while driving down the road!!

 

Cheers guys...did the old hose trick, through the engine bay and funnel in the other end...good stuff. takes 1.7litres to fill.