Well to be honest I went off and made a cup of tea while it was draining, as it seemed to take a few minutes. I looked at it and noticed what looked like "dust" coming out. Didn't think anything of it. Must have been the metal shavings.STALLED wrote:The million dollar question:
How much oil shavings and the like, came out of the box when you fully drained it?
You must be slender as it took me to jack it up to 3 notches on the axle stands to get my belly under it ;)406executiveHDI wrote:thats funny for i changed the oil in the summer, and i wasnt sure where the sump plug was, but i just felt about and got the right one this is without jacking up the car, then the oil poured out into a dish which somehow i got under there. Then my uncle come over and told me that i need a new sump plug washer. So i had to use my grandas polo sdi to drive around looking for one, but eventually did, got 10 for £1, but the oil must have had about over an hour to drain, easilly could have been the gearbox oil.
But thats funny because round here i hear 2 307s that make a real odd whine, like the alfa 75 jeremy drove in that alfa edition of top gear, they must be on low oil.
But thats good to know i wouldnt mind freshening up the gearbox.
That whine was exactly what my gearbox was doing in 3rd gear. My first thought was that from the Top Gear Alfa, my gearbox was dying! Then I put 2+2 together regarding the overfilled engine
It was an easy (albeit in error) job, drain the gearbox same as the oil (you don't even need to take the sump guard off), give it a good while to get all the crap out, then bung it up (with new washer) and put 2 litres of 75w80 in. The black breather plug on the hdi gearbox is below the airbox, mine came out handy with a 17mm (or was it 19mm) end of an extensible wheel wrench.
Then fire 1.8 litres of fresh stuff in with a funnel, retighten the breather and there you go!
New *engine* oil drained and filled at the weekend. Not sure whether to put the sumpguard back on? It was held on by cable ties and a single nut under the front bumper.
More misadventures to follow as I put into practice the teachings of my amateur motor mechanics nightclass!
(including 'er indoors Fiesta sparkplugs next weekend 
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