I try to keep on top of the oils and fluids, makes things run smooth it does.
I will be honest though, with it being stood for a year while I welded the whole thing back up, some things got neglected.
So my mission was to get it all squared away asap and back to firm base to build off.
With great thanks to Dave Harrington over at Hampshire oil and grease I got me 20 litres of Dexron 11D transmission fluid and 20 litres of EP80/90W hypoid gear oil.
Lots to do and I had very little time to do it!!!
Well that wasn't supposed to happen, the little square topped plug is the level plug for the swivel housing and I always found it easier to pop the steering stop out to do the swivel housings as it's a ball ache otherwise trying to get the plug out. Ping goes the steering stop 😠😠ðŸ˜
Oh well, drain at the bottom and level plug in the middle.
Up here at the top is the filler plug.
Front axle housing, clean the crap off and always, always pop the filler plug out before you drain the housings, that goes for everything really, if you can't get fluids back in then it's not a good idea to empty out what you got in there.
LT77 main gearbox runs a Dexron 11D ATF transmission fluid and NOT EP80/90 gear oil lol.
The super strong LT230 transfer box does run a hypoid EP80/90W gear oil however, although I do know people running EP140 extra thick oil in there as it tends not to leak out as easily, mine has the very common intermediate shaft O ring leak, really lets the box down as it seems a very half arsed way to seal that shaft in particular and it can also destroy casings if the bearings wear and the shaft ovals out the hole in the casing.
The back axle oil got swapped out too, very easy, drain plug and fill it up.
Wheel nuts on the road wheels, for goodness sakes, just buy a torque wrench, torque them up to 95lb/ft or 129NM and check after 50 miles driving, no you do not need a scaffold pole on a 3/4" breaker bar, just do it properly and they come off easier in the future as well as not stretching your wheel studs or stripping the threads out your wheel nuts.
All buttoned up, had to address some loose drive member bolts and reseal the drive member on the drivers side, likely I will need to renew the front brake pads before winter so I will pop the hubs off and regrease the wheel bearings and reset them.
Thanks for looking.
