Hi all.
When I had a local specialist autobox company do an oil change on my BW65 autobox,they disconnected the pipes at the rad end,connected their oil machine to it,started the car and the old oil was then pumped out whilst new oil was sucked in!
When the flow of oil was pink in the tell tale sight glass you knew any contaminated oil "brown" was mostly gone.
It cost £125 to have this done,seeing as it can cost £60 for a couple of galls/10L of oil,and it took them ½hr ish to do it,didnt seem to bad.
But they were the ones that ripped me off re a recon box,and should of realised that the oils colour shouldnt have been like that with so little mileage,but box was out of 12 month warranty,but had only done 10k miles,and went bang at 15k miles with a destroyed rear band!!!
I am really glad to report that I recently found out that this company went seriously bust about a year after my experience!!
:twisted:
Just a thought ????
Wouldnt it therefore be feasable to do it yourself at home??
By connecting some clear pipe to the in/out pipes on the rads cooler,and using the gearbox,s own oil pump and running the engine, putting the output into a drain can,and the input into a new container of oil,changing then when they get full/empty?
I may attempt this when I do my next oil change,as I want to drop the sump and change the filter!
I am now running an excellent BW35 box that I replaced the 65 with!
On the subject of BW35 oil filters some say there are 2 types,whilst know specialists "classeparts for one" only list 1 type?
I cannot afford to take it apart then wait for the right one to come as its my daily driver,therfore I would need both to hand just incase,and then be able to return the one not needed!
Hope you can advise on any of this Harvey.???
As you are the autobox guru!! :wink:
Cheers Dave