It's the simple things that drive you mad...
Somehow or when the side fill plug on my TR6's transmission got so tightly
wedged it isn't real. I'm just trying to change the gearbox oil. Every wrench
I've got just keeps slipping. Is there a special trick to this? A square
wrench?
I have a nice little hand oil pump with long pipes. "Ah ha!" thought I, "I
shall just pump it up from below". Stuck the "Out" pipe from the pump in the
transmission's drain and used paper towel to seal around it. Felt really
smart. No luck, the gearbox isn't vented so all I do is pump the oil in until
I have a nice head of air pressure in the transmission above the oil and only
1/10 the oil in. I wonder if I can loosen some bolt (reverse gear pivot seems
accessible and make an air outlet.
I'm going to have to pull the transmission cover if this can't move. I'd
really rather avoid that for now.
Do those rubber universal pan bolts (with the pull-over lever) work for the
transmission filling hole? I do not want to have to do this again.
Mark Hooper
1972 TR6 (with 1/4 litre of oil in the transmission)
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