Gear box oil

[Mocki]

always best to drain it when its been run.....
i have a hose fitted to a funnel which just nicely sits in the engine bay infront of the air box and allows the filling to take place whilst coffee is partaken from a distance!

[ghost123uk]

Cheers Ian.

So just to check, what is the actual best oil to use? WIKI suggests Millers MT90 or MTL, Haynes says SAE 80 and is it defo 4 litres - confused.com!!!

Chris

Mr Talbot recommends 4 litres of GL4 80/90 gear oil

If anyone is struggling to source reasonably priced GL4 then look no further than Wilkos...£2.77 per litre.

The deed has been done, but what a pain in the (_!_) ! Getting the drain plug undone was a feat in itself, with access restricted by the exhaust I could just about get an open-ended spanner onto the socket with enough socket in the hex of the plug. After some cursing it came loose. Old oil was cleaner than I expected, kind of honey coloured. Now, this is what Haynes don't tell you...to get oil through the filler hole is tricky given that the oil bottle only has a tube about 3 or 4 inches long. The gear linkage gets in the way big style. To overcome this I used a 2 foot long piece of garden hose which fitted perfectly into the filler hole. At the other end the oil bottle tube was a nice push fit so this made it easier to feed the oil in..kind of intravenous style if that makes sense.

It does make sense and that is just what I did last summer when I did mine.

Note to anyone reading this thread in the future = ALWAYS check your filler plug comes out OK BEFORE draining the oil !!