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| dorsetsmith Member Since: 30 Oct 2011 Location: South West Posts: 4554  |
as its only 2 mouth form replace service sheet gear box oil replace 12 mouth or 20,000 km
id replace it Last edited by dorsetsmith on 30th Dec 2018 3:50pm. Edited 1 time in total |
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30th Dec 2018 3:13pm |
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| lohr500 Member Since: 14 Sep 2014 Location: Skipton Posts: 1330  
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Hi Yannis, is that the main gearbox, or transfer box?
If main, I am surprised it is that dark after 10 months. How many miles have you done since the change? The 2.2 service manual only calls for main gearbox oil to be changed at 120k miles!! See this post : https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic62565.html I wouldn't want to leave it that long and change mine every 3 miles, or in my case 6000 miles. |
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30th Dec 2018 3:41pm |
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| Swine&Small Member Since: 20 Mar 2017 Location: Norfolk Posts: 1223
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now every 3miles has got to be expensive
 1983 Series 3 Pick up in Marine Blue
1967 Morris Traveller 1966 Morris Convertible 2012 VW T5 Camper Quod Abundat Non Obstat. |
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30th Dec 2018 3:49pm |
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| dorsetsmith Member Since: 30 Oct 2011 Location: South West Posts: 4554 |
,000
 Last edited by dorsetsmith on 30th Dec 2018 4:29pm. Edited 1 time in total |
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30th Dec 2018 3:56pm |
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| Yannis Member Since: 02 Feb 2015 Location: Oxfordshire / Milan Posts: 408 
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This is the main gearbox oil.
The intermediate shaft went about 4 months back and its had a new ashcroft shaft. About 8k miles I guess since the last service. It’s going back in until the new oil arrives in about a week. I will also put in a magnetic drain plug and see what’s on it in a weeks time. |
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30th Dec 2018 4:25pm |
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| lohr500 Member Since: 14 Sep 2014 Location: Skipton Posts: 1330
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Ooops !! 3 Years  |
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30th Dec 2018 5:24pm |
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| familymad Member Since: 13 Dec 2011 Location: Bucks Posts: 3481  
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You done any long high speed runs? Mine went in fresh and looked like that after 6k of running to and from Morocco mid summer. 1951 80" S1 2.0
1995 110 300TDI 1995 90 300TDI |
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30th Dec 2018 7:42pm |
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| Marks Landy Member Since: 09 Feb 2015 Location: Cheshire Posts: 301 
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What oil did you put in?
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30th Dec 2018 8:09pm |
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| Yannis Member Since: 02 Feb 2015 Location: Oxfordshire / Milan Posts: 408
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I used Castrol Syntrans Multivehicle 75W-90 Fully Synthetic MTF
As per Martins sticky post in the TDCI section of the forum. Normally short runs to work, but probably half the mileage is made up of long runs into the mountains. |
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30th Dec 2018 10:47pm |
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| Marks Landy Member Since: 09 Feb 2015 Location: Cheshire Posts: 301
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Possibly overfilled?
That would over heat the oil and change the colour. |
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1st Jan 2019 6:34am |
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| PAT303 Member Since: 25 Feb 2013 Location: Australia Posts: 125  
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Mine has looked like that every time I've changed it, both main and transfer.
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2nd Jan 2019 12:00pm |
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| ozzie1989 Member Since: 25 Feb 2009 Location: Wales Posts: 282  
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Mine has always darkened too, with low mileage.
It doesn't help that it's a reddish colour, or at least not as golden as the Transfer box oil. Now: 2010 2.4 TDCi 110 Utility Wagon Then: 2004 2.5 TD5 90 Hard Top (X-Tech Edition) |
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5th Jan 2019 7:09pm |
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