Filling gear box oil? Need a bit of help

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TunaSandwhich
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Filling gear box oil? Need a bit of help

Post by TunaSandwhich » Wed Aug 20, 2014 5:02 pm

Hey guys, so I'm not the most knowledgeable about car maintenance and my Haynes manual is invariably not the easiest to understand.

I need to top up the gear oil, I've bought the millers oil but my question is can I do this from the top? Or do I need to take off the splash tray and jack the car up level?
If it requires jacking up then is it possible with just two jack stands? :/ and can you pour the oil in from underneath or am I gonna need to fork out even more money for a pump?

Any help much appreciated

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jamescarruthers
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Re: Filling gear box oil? Need a bit of help

Post by jamescarruthers » Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:46 am

http://www.volvo-480-europe.org/forum/v ... 24&t=14058

Here you go... although the pictures didn't seem to work when I did it, the information is still there.
1987 Volvo 480 ES, 507274, 217 - Red (Ness)
2006 Citroen C6 Exclusive 3.0 petrol/LPG
2008 Mini Cooper convertible (Mau)

Previous 480's:
J123 CFU -- ES
J449 MNL -- ES auto
D864 CPV -- ES
L691 JFC -- Turbo
F70 MNR -- ES
H858 FGV -- Turbo auto
E981 KHM -- ES (509849)

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Re: Filling gear box oil? Need a bit of help

Post by TunaSandwhich » Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:23 am

Thanks James, I had seen that but I was wondering if it's possible to access the fill whole from the top without needing to jack up the car?

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Re: Filling gear box oil? Need a bit of help

Post by JohnB » Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:24 pm

If you don't know if the oil has been changed its probably best to do a drain and refill anyway you can access the fill hole from àbove much easier from below though can I ask why you need to top it up as the box holds from memory 4.6l could be wrong on that number

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Re: Filling gear box oil? Need a bit of help

Post by dagajsek » Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:44 am

I would do the same, drain all.

And then fill it from the top, with help of a longer tube that fits into the hole in the gearbox and on the other end out from the engine bay.

When it's time to improvise I do just that :)

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