Hi all
Just got my first Landrover and think i should give her a little bit of TLC before i let her teach me how to drive off road.
I am going to service her and am looking into changing the oil in the gear box transmission and everything else usual on a service.
I have had a look under and from what i can see i am missing what at first looked like a drain hole on the 5th gear extension of the gear box.
After sever hours of sh***ing myself thinking i have been driving with no oil in the gear box, i have come across loads of information and just need someone to conform i am correct
on the lt77 the hole was used for an oil filter and a second drain hole for the oil. But in the r380 this is not longer used and left open to allow oil leackage to drain out without causing problems to the clutch or something like that and should only be capped of going wading (deep water/ mud)
Is this correct or am i very mistaken
Also several places say that you need a torx 55 to undo the filler bolt is this correct as the only ones i can find seam to be large star key screw divers shoved into a 1/2 drive socket and the nut seams to be a square nut on it
Help please
Just got my first Landrover and think i should give her a little bit of TLC before i let her teach me how to drive off road.
I am going to service her and am looking into changing the oil in the gear box transmission and everything else usual on a service.
I have had a look under and from what i can see i am missing what at first looked like a drain hole on the 5th gear extension of the gear box.
After sever hours of sh***ing myself thinking i have been driving with no oil in the gear box, i have come across loads of information and just need someone to conform i am correct
on the lt77 the hole was used for an oil filter and a second drain hole for the oil. But in the r380 this is not longer used and left open to allow oil leackage to drain out without causing problems to the clutch or something like that and should only be capped of going wading (deep water/ mud)
Is this correct or am i very mistaken
Also several places say that you need a torx 55 to undo the filler bolt is this correct as the only ones i can find seam to be large star key screw divers shoved into a 1/2 drive socket and the nut seams to be a square nut on it
Help please