How to Change the oil in a Manual Gearbox

Okay heres a guide on how to change your FTO Manual gearbox oil, im not going into oil specifics and what you should run, but youll need a bottle thats going to fill around 2.1 Litres.

Tools and equipment you will need:
1. Jack of some sort
2. 17mm & 24mm Sockets
3. Socket Wrench or Breaker Bar
4. Container that is able to hold at least 3L of drained oil
5. New Bottle of Gearbox Oil
6. GLOVES!! this stuff stinks
7. Funnel, Short Piece of Hose & Stickytape.

What needs to be done:
Step 1. Find some stable ground, handbrake on, jack it up so you can get underneath.

Step 2. Find the Oil Filler Bolt, its on the passenger side, down under past the airbox, it has "OIL" written on it, its the left bolt in this icture, its a 17mm.


Step 3. Pop down under the car with your ratchet or breaker bar equipped with 17mm socket, undo the Oil Filler Bolt, make sure youve got a container underneath incase some comes out.
Put the bolt in a safe place so it wont get dirty.

Step 4. A Bit further down towards the driveshaft is the Oil Drain Bolt, its a 24mm

I needed a breakerbar to crack this one, have a container underneath,
it comes out pretty quick to begin with when you take it off and ends up as a dribble like this.
I left mine for around twenty minutes.




Heres what mine came out, pretty disgusting i reckon its been in there about 80000kms It STINKS!!




Step 5. Replace the Oil Drain Bolt, making sure its tight and wipe around the edges so you can tell if its leaking later.


My Gearbox oil wasnt a squirt type one so if your unlucky like me, i made up a nice little contraption with a funnel and sticky taping on some pipe like this.



Step 6. Lower the car so that its level for filling,
Push the hose into the oil filler hole like this and FILL! or Squirt!
(If you have a bottle that squirts)
Place a container under the filler hole


FILL FILL FILL

I used basically the whole bottle before taking the hose out, when the gearbox oil is full it will start to come back out of the filler hole.
Don't be worried about overfilling just let all the excess drain out like the following.
It does take between 2.1 to 2.4Litres.

Step 7. Pop the Oil Filler Bolt Back in and your good to go! Dispose of your oil properly too


Oh and i used this oil.



This post has been taken from ftoaustralia