Gearbox Oil

[chris72a]

Hey all, just curious the manual states that the gearbox oil is "for life" and doesn't need to be changed, I am a bit sceptical of this and would like to change mine, have had a look but can't see any drain plug so I imagine I will suck the oil out and replace, but replace with what? Gearbox is the durashift box (2003 mk6) anyone know what oil spec to use. As far as QTY goes, I figure I will just replace the amount I draw out.

Cheers
Chris.

[Wheelchair7]

Hey all, just curious the manual states that the gearbox oil is "for life" and doesn't need to be changed, I am a bit sceptical of this and would like to change mine, have had a look but can't see any drain plug so I imagine I will suck the oil out and replace, but replace with what? Gearbox is the durashift box (2003 mk6) anyone know what oil spec to use. As far as QTY goes, I figure I will just replace the amount I draw out.

Cheers
Chris.

how much did u take out

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[Digrizrat]

For Anyone else reading this, I changed the oil in my gearbox. 2013 2.2L fwd. theres a 8mm allen key plug under the diff by the lower gearbox mount thats the drain plug, and on the front of the box is another 8mm plug which is the filler plug. you fill the oil till it comes out the filler hole.Wait for it to drain out the top hole, so it's exactly level with the bottom edge of the top filler hole.

Like you, I don't trust the oil for life statement. and once you're out of warranty, there's no reason not to change it. I did mine a while after I bought it, at about 120,000 miles.

For the life of me I can't remember if I used 2 and a half bottles or three and a half.... buy 4 x 1L bottles and if you have one left over get a refund

[KevofCov]

Yep - had the same thoughts. I'm doing space ship mileages, is it worth changing gearbox oil? My gut feeling is yes very muchly.

[karl]

as above drain and refill till comes back out of the filler hole roughly 2.2 litres

75w/90 synthetic oil

[neill]

I'm just about to do mine with some good quality synth. This "for life " statement means several years it does not mean until the sun implodes on itself and all life becomes extinct.
I had a similarity thing with range rovers I've run, LR say gearbox oil for life , ZF which is the German company that make the gearboxes say change every 70k . Range Rover gearbox failure is legendary!

In my book , if it got a drain plug then I going to drain it!
My van is just out of warranty and has only done 26k miles, probably overkill but will give me piece of mind for a small amount of cash
I'm also going to change the coolant and pump fresh brake fluid through the system.

No reason why you couldn't do the gearbox each time you do the engine oil TBH

[knobby1]

I'm just about to do mine with some good quality synth.

Be careful which oil you use, I thought as you did and tried a Castrol synthetic gear oil and most of it spewed out of the breather and down the side of my MT82 gearbox....seems it was foaming up inside the box for some strange reason....so I finally went for some nice Redline MTL full synthetic oil....expensive but much betterer.!! The Mustang guys use it too, some of the Mustangs have the MT82 box as well.

Lord Knobrot

[chris72a]

as above drain and refill till comes back out of the filler hole roughly 2.2 litres

75w/90 synthetic oil

Wow I forgot I even asked this question, just went looking again cause it crossed my mind recently, and found my post.
Karl do you know if the MK6 2003 2.4 has the same allen key drain and fill bolts and will that oil be o.k for my model?

Thanks for any advice.
Cheers
CHris.

[chris72a]

So the Haynes manual states

2.4 litre engines with 5-speed transmissions 1.3 litres

and oil type just says

Transmission oil to Ford specification WSD-M2C200-C

The only one I can find that says it meets that spec is Nulon SYN75W85
anyone used this.

Cheers
CHris.

[knobby1]

So the Haynes manual states

2.4 litre engines with 5-speed transmissions 1.3 litres

and oil type just says

Transmission oil to Ford specification WSD-M2C200-C

The only one I can find that says it meets that spec is Nulon SYN75W85
anyone used this.

Cheers
CHris.

Yep...Nulon is good stuff.

Lord Knobrot

[ned]

Doesn't Nulon make 'start ya b*stard' as well, this year am going to give my van a dam good service including the gear oil. N

[knobby1]

Doesn't Nulon make 'start ya b*stard' as well, N

Aye...they do..! Aussie company too.

Lord Knobrot