Topic: how do i drain the fluid out of auto box (Read 1908 times)

feeutfo · « **Reply #15 on:** 18 October 2008, 20:16:13 »

you could get an extra sump bolt welded in but as said you need to check/clean the filter and magnet anyway so sumps do have to come off anyway. Vx treat the box as a sealed unit so dont account changeing the oil/serviceing. We know better of course, as experience has proved.
Vx now giving away work shop consumables on trade club. I got a sack of super white oil spill stuff with my can belt kit. But it does look alot like cat litter.

I watched my mech change mine(atf). He undid all bolts loosely, then removed all the bolts from one end first working back to the other end. Leaving one, i think in the corner? This one bolt(might have been 2) was holding the sump up fully, no leaking oil yet.
He then gradually undid the last bolt so that the other end of the sump dropped slowly down as he undid it. This gradually let the oil spill over the edge of the sump(s) into a container. He had obviously done the job before. But as said the main mess was from the drips once the sump was fully removed.
Hth

Andy B · « **Reply #16 on:** 18 October 2008, 20:34:02 »

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...... But as said the main mess was from the drips once the sump was fully removed.
Hth

Mine was when the filler tube from my funnel under the bonnet fell out of the gearbox.

I'd been doing pretty well up till then.

kris9128 · « **Reply #17 on:** 19 October 2008, 15:53:46 »

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...... But as said the main mess was from the drips once the sump was fully removed.
Hth

Mine was when the filler tube from my funnel under the bonnet fell out of the gearbox. I'd been doing pretty well up till then.

eh. what is this funnel thing you speak of sir. :-? :-?

Welung666 · « **Reply #18 on:** 19 October 2008, 16:43:01 »

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eh. what is this funnel thing you speak of sir. :-? :-?

It's a cheat

I use similar to top up gearbox oil in my Morris Minor. It's basically a cheap funnel and a length of garden hose pushed together. Hose into gearbox & pour oil into funnel

Andy B · « **Reply #19 on:** 19 October 2008, 21:08:57 »

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eh. what is this funnel thing you speak of sir. :-? :-?

It's a cheat I use similar to top up gearbox oil in my Morris Minor. It's basically a cheap funnel and a length of garden hose pushed together. Hose into gearbox & pour oil into funnel

YeS! what he ^^^ said

kris9128 · « **Reply #20 on:** 20 October 2008, 06:10:18 »

i can feel a blue peter moment coming on.

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