By Jeff on Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 11:16 am: Edit

Can anybody tell me where the drain plug is located? How do you fill in the oil. What kind of oil to use. How many quarts. What else do I need in order to put back the oil. I plan to do it in my garage.
This is my first time. thanks for input.

By al hang on Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 04:40 pm: Edit

it's covered on my website, just fill till it starts to spill out.

www.people.vcu.edu/~ahang

By Bill B on Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 05:06 am: Edit

One trick that will make your life easier and less messy is picking up a cheap drill operated pump ($7-10) and then use a cordless drill and tubing to pump the oil from the bottle into the T-case (and Diffs). This prevents the contortions necessary to upend a quart bottle into the appropriate hole without spilling half of it in the process.

By Jeff on Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 05:11 am: Edit

Thanks for the input. For the transfer case alone do you have an estimate how many quarts do I need?

By Mike on Thursday, April 05, 2001 - 09:46 am: Edit

Jeff, I just changed the transfer case oil for the first time. I took about 3-4 quarts.

By Jeff on Thursday, April 05, 2001 - 09:58 am: Edit

Mike, once the oil drains out from the fill hole that means its full, right? How come it only took 2.5 quarts on mine.

By Mike on Friday, April 06, 2001 - 05:22 am: Edit

Jeff, Yes - once the oil starts to overflow from the fill hole - you're done. You're right about the amount of oil used. The Haynes manual lists the capacity at 2.3 or 2.8 litres depending on the vin#. So the 2.5 quarts sounds right. What type of oil did you use?

By Jeff on Friday, April 06, 2001 - 06:16 am: Edit

I bought the oil from Pep boys (forgot the name) with 90-145W. I will tell you the exact name of the oil on Monday. Its not a popular brand but thats the only ones they carry.

By Ron on Friday, April 06, 2001 - 06:36 am: Edit

In theory you should have uses 85w90wt.

Ron

By jeff on Friday, April 06, 2001 - 12:00 pm: Edit

The guy from Pep boys said 90-145 is better because it has "wider band". I dont know what it means but I bought anyways. Should I drain and replace it with 85-90. Thanks for input.

By Ron on Monday, April 09, 2001 - 03:31 am: Edit

I don't think it will hurt to have 140wt in there as older LR and RR specs listed the ok choices as either, but I just wanted to be clear that the correct is 85w90 in case anyone else was doing it.

Ron

By pk on Tuesday, April 10, 2001 - 12:12 pm: Edit

In future please never listen to the guys at Pep Boys! They don't know shit form Shinola.

pk