yeah i'd be careful of using sticky stuff remover, its managed to melt/dissolve the scraper i was using so it cant be great on paint.

the car is looking great!

Cheers. Man I'm so tired, today it didn't stop raining but I pushed on anyway. Got the new box in and attached to the diff, currently it's jacked up at the front but I *should* get it in tomorrow fine. Gasket tore around the bolts because everything was wet pretty sure it'll be fine though as it's solid everywhere else. Took me a lot longer to do this than normal as rain and cold makes speedy very very tired. I had to lift the box up with my chest as the jack proved useless. Tomorrow should get all linkages back together and we'll be set, pictures to follow.

I remember changing the secondary unit (unit contains diff as well) on my old variomatic, it wasn't easy working without a pit. Used a small trolley jack but it was fiddly lining it up with the mounting bracket to get the bolts in, and I had the benefit of my dad's garage and summer!

Got this done the day after, only an extra 2 hours so it's all good. Man it's so sweet being able to change gear and not have to man handle the thing

Dropping the old box down


State of that oil!


New box ready to go in


The neighbours LOVED me when I washed all the oil into the street and down the drain

20 minutes of fire and hammers today, I got the drain plug off. Interesting pattern on the other side. I have no idea what the silver sludge is


I don't think this thing has EVER had an oil change, which makes the previous owner a lying cnut.

Still rocks but not as bad as before, it could well be the diff that's the problem. Still glad I did the box though as most of the synchros were shot.

Next month I'm treating the thing to a stainless exhaust, my current has the death rattle

That grey sludge is years of metal particles, mainly from the synchros wearing that have mixed with oil and stuck to your drain plug!!! Glad you found the box an improvement, like i said i never had any problems with it!! What fluid did you put back in it out of interest? I always used to run 33G ATF!! Found it the nicest by far and slickest for gearchanges.
Adam

Unfortunatly I'm quite poor and all I had spare was 10w 40 mineral oil, not bad but I'll be treating it to something better next month. If you say 33G is best I think I'll get some of that

So basically, you put engine oil in your transmission? It ain't an Austin Maxi for heaven's sake

And for draining oil down the sewers, don't you have special community dump sites for that?

It was the residue from 3 days work, I couldn't mop it up as it was pouring it down with rain. 10w 40 isn't ideal but it is a recommended alternative and I've had no complaints yet from 200 miles.

Apparently, Castrol 10w40 Magnatec engine oil is the current recommendation for V300 gearboxes. There are a few threads about it on V3M ... Haven't tried it myself though.

Cheers

Tom

Castrol wrote:For older RWD models an alternative recommendation of Magnatec 10W-40 A3/B3 engine oil was made at the request of Volvo UK who do not wish TQF to be used in these applications, contrary to recommendations in vehicle handbooks

http://www.castrol.com/castrol/iframe.d ... Id=7044829

nvdw wrote:So basically, you put engine oil in your transmission? It ain't an Austin Maxi for heaven's sake

Yup, I believe Volvo changed it's recommendation for M4x gearboxes to take 10w40 oil

Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups. I most deffinatly did not assume that all that oil that came out from removing the box was just from the gearbox and I most deffinatly did NOT think "sod it, I'll replace my diff fluid next week". There deffinatly was oil in my diff when I came to replacing it today. Honest.

Speedy88 wrote:Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups. I most deffinatly did not assume that all that oil that came out from removing the box was just from the gearbox and I most deffinatly did NOT think "sod it, I'll replace my diff fluid next week". There deffinatly was oil in my diff when I came to replacing it today. Honest.

Grindy grindy,
frowny frowny.

Thanks VND for these

Didn't like it up here so decided on under the bumper:

Speedy88 wrote:Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups. I most deffinatly did not assume that all that oil that came out from removing the box was just from the gearbox and I most deffinatly did NOT think "sod it, I'll replace my diff fluid next week". There deffinatly was oil in my diff when I came to replacing it today. Honest.

Ouch

No engine oil for the diff, Hypoid's the right stuff here IIRC ...

Tom