Type 9 gearbox oil
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Type 9 gearbox oil
What's the best oil for an SS1's type 9, and how's easiest to get it in there? The fill / level check bung is pretty awkward to access in the tunnel.

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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
Hole cutter in tunnel and then add rivnuts to attach a cover plate?
Can't remember what oils suitable sorry, but they're pretty picky, the wrong oil gives a bualky shift. Maybe ask BGH, Burtons or similar?
Can't remember what oils suitable sorry, but they're pretty picky, the wrong oil gives a bualky shift. Maybe ask BGH, Burtons or similar?
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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
Burton's recommend 75w90 semi synthetic. I'd use Shockproof oil for your application. Either invest in a gearbox oil pump (sometimes expensive) or do what I do; use a small squeezy bottle and a length of pipe to push it up into the gearbox. You will have to fill the bottle several times and your hands will be cramped up by the time the gearbox is full.
I've heard of some people drilling holes in the tub to access the oil plug, might not be a bad idea in a car like yours that's already stripped out. You could blank it with a blanking grommet once you're done?

I've heard of some people drilling holes in the tub to access the oil plug, might not be a bad idea in a car like yours that's already stripped out. You could blank it with a blanking grommet once you're done?
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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
I bought a pump which fits on to a drill to fill the gearbox - I also use it to pump out and re-fill the diff as SS1's don't have a drain plug in the diff ( some can be drained by removing a cover bolt I believe ). The pump cost me 50p at the time from a market stall and is still going strong.
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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
Hole saw and a grommet - a plate and rivnuts if you're feeling posh 

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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
I used Comma SX75W90 GL4 semi-synthetic.
And cut holes in the chassis and tub
And cut holes in the chassis and tub

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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
Thanks chaps. I take it I can't fill it through the tail section by pouring it in the gearstick hole?

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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
Yes, if you jack the back up quite high. There is a lip where the sections join as the hole isn't at the bottom of the joint.
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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
Alternatively, if you've got one of these lying about:

cut off the spray nozzle, bend the end to a convenient shape, put in the oil and pump up the pressure, insert in gearbox and open valve.....
(may help to warm the oil in cold weather)
cut off the spray nozzle, bend the end to a convenient shape, put in the oil and pump up the pressure, insert in gearbox and open valve.....
(may help to warm the oil in cold weather)
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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
I have a metre or so length of stiff plastic pipe which i heated and bent a 90 degree into the end of. Slips into The neck of an oil bottle with the bottom cut out.
Post it down the side of the gearbox from the engine bay and hold it to the screen with the wiper and top up periodically as it drains in over about 10 minutes till tinkling out into a catch tray underneath.
Personally i hate lazy access holes. I think this is why i cannot form a fuller freindship with Jim King ;-p
Post it down the side of the gearbox from the engine bay and hold it to the screen with the wiper and top up periodically as it drains in over about 10 minutes till tinkling out into a catch tray underneath.
Personally i hate lazy access holes. I think this is why i cannot form a fuller freindship with Jim King ;-p
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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
..... and the bonnet isn't a lazy access hole?reliant-reviver wrote:
Personally i hate lazy access holes. I think this is why i cannot form a fuller freindship with Jim King ;-p


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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
Pah - only G97 has access holes. I use a killspray for the road cars 

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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
When you remember to full them that is haha!
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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
nickkeyser wrote:Thanks chaps. I take it I can't fill it through the tail section by pouring it in the gearstick hole?
You shouldn't be able to do this - there's an oil seal in the tail housing where the selector shaft passes through to stop gearbox oil getting back to the gear stickscimjim wrote:Yes, if you jack the back up quite high. There is a lip where the sections join as the hole isn't at the bottom of the joint.
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Re: Type 9 gearbox oil
Ah - okay. My response was based on looking at a stripped box, obviously deficient a seal 

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Current: SE5 (8Ball), TI SS1 (snotty), 1600 SS1 (G97), 1600 SS1 (C686CCR), 2.5TD SE5a (diesel 5a), 6 x random other SS1s.
Previous: SE5, 3 x SE5a, 2 x SE6a, 3 x SE6b, GTC, 2.9i GTC, 3 x 1600 SS1, 1300 SS1, Mk1 Ti Sabre, Mk1.5 CVH Sabre
Chief mechanic for: 1400 K series SS1 (Megan3), 1400 CVH EFi SS1 (Grawpy), Sabre/MX5 auto (The Flying Broomstick),
1300 SS1 (Number One) & Sarah's coupe.
CURE THE FAULT - NOT THE SYMPTOMS