Freebee from France 2003 TD4 1 Diff oil change

It has been a hot sunny day here in France so instead of lounging around by the river with a glass of rose wine I decided to get under the TD4, change the diff oil and soak my hair and arms in some smelly liquid, I had a peep last week and it looked a bit like a greeny grey molasses. A few weeks ago I purchased an oil suction pump from wish.com for about £10, it came with all sorts of tubes including a few feet of soft copper tube which I assume is for changing engine oil via the dipstick opening.

As I could not be arsed to remove the diff plate I sucked out the oil with the pump, the conical top up plug came out easily so no problems there. As I had some ATF left I pumped that in and took it for a very slow run around the block to churn things up a bit, again it seems to have cleaned out the muck. I sucked it out with the pump and replaced it with Castrol Axle EPX 80w90 API-GL5 and a dose of Slick 50. Why this oil, about a year ago my local supermarket was clearing out various oils including the EPX and Syntrans for 2€ the litre so I purchased 5 litres of each not knowing I was to be gifted a Freelander and the oils would come in useful. I just hope I have done the right thing cleaning it out with the ATF and refilling with the EPX and Slick 50. If anyone thinks I have screwed up please let me know, I am not a mechanic so I would really appreciate your feedback

It's definitely better than leaving the old oil in or not cleaning it out and adding new ..

Shouldn't cause any issues at all ..

Paul D said:

It's definitely better than leaving the old oil in or not cleaning it out and adding new ..

Shouldn't cause any issues at all ..

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Thank you Paul that is quite a relief.

Paul D said:

It's definitely better than leaving the old oil in or not cleaning it out and adding new ..

Shouldn't cause any issues at all ..

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You really have a "go anywhere" vehicle, it looks great, makes mine look like a hairdressers suv, not wishing to offend any hairdressers of course

its ok but the sign on his says laners so what I can gather it only goes down green lanes and not anything ruff or the doors might fall off LOL

teddywood1 said:

its ok but the sign on his says laners so what I can gather it only goes down green lanes and not anything ruff or the doors might fall off LOL

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I ain't biting ....

have you had to do any welding lately? no honestly it looks a nice car except those lights on the roof

There's always welding to do .. but I'm almost at the end of it now ..

Oh I dislike the look of the lights, but they're good to see things with in the night, in a forest, up a moor, and angled so I can also see when I'm turning when there aren't any street lights or neon hairdressers signs showing the way ...

he bit then did he not LOL