Gearbox Oil change! Do It!

[LegoHead]

Downchanges seem to slide in much better now!

Castrol Syntrax 75w-90 Gear Oil 4Litres semi-syn GL4/5 £37.95

Not cheap, but the gearchanges are much much smoother. Not given it any beans yet.

 

[D1CKY]

How do you change the oil on a 172/182 mate ?

Or more to the point, where is the drain plug and fill plug ?

Does the fill and drain plugs use any special square sockets ?

 

[DrR]

Do what i did, change the gearbox, now technically on my 4th one in 62k

 

[john.med]

mate works for renault, get discounted services/less the labour etc... had my 'box oil changed a lot earlier than required by the stealers... cost less than buying the oil myself, and made absolutely NO difference!

 

[drhowser]

i found changing the dogbone bush made a massive difference!

 

[deviltronics]

i'm going to change mine as the gears are sometimes getting difficult to get in. hopefully will do the trick.

 

[LegoHead]

How do you change the oil on a 172/182 mate ?

Or more to the point, where is the drain plug and fill plug ?

Does the fill and drain plugs use any special square sockets ?

there is a good guide in the guides section. But essentially its the same square 8mm bit for the sump plug.

I got a flexi funnel and jammed some pipe in the bottom to get it into the hole easily.

 

[LegoHead]

i found changing the dogbone bush made a massive difference!

I've got one on the way from sweden.

 

[drhowser]

do you get the dirty great bang when you change up giving it beans?

 

[davebem]

How do you change the oil on a 172/182 mate ?

Or more to the point, where is the drain plug and fill plug ?

Does the fill and drain plugs use any special square sockets ?

Theres a good guide made by dan in the guides section. IMO it should be changed every 40k.

 

[LegoHead]

do you get the dirty great bang when you change up giving it beans?

I change so that the gear change is smooth, blipping throttle on up and down shifts, so dont get a bang.

 

[deviltronics]

no its just difficult to get in when hammering it.

 

[drhowser]

i'm always quite careful, but before i changed it i used to get a bang getting back on the gas, but the new bush completely stopped it. definately worth doing!