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Itsa MK 3, 1.8 diesel, 5 speed. The drain plug on the gearbox has a little shaft protruding from it about 3" long, what is that and is it safe to take his thing out without upsetting anything?
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on the inside ? Is it a magnet to collect any little bits of metal ?
Or a gear tooth stuck to the top of a little magnet ?
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the drain plug on a mk3 fiesta gearbox is still on the drawing board
Do not take the long pin thing out
easiest way to drain these is remove a driveshaft
The oil will last the life of the box on a mk3,later ones ie mk5 have synthetic oil in them....
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I presume it has a filler plug? If so the "long" way round is to syphon the oil out via a tube stuffed down into the guts of the thing via the filler hole. Took about 2 hours on my Escort, and felt better for having the 16 year-old oil removed, complete with shiny gearbox particles!
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oldman is right (as usual). Removing a driveshaft and replacing it and new oil seal takes less than 2 hours:-)
madf
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From memory, that's the reverse gear detent cover (or similar), but think it can be used to drain the gearbox.
JS
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The Haynes manual decribe it as, "the selecter shaft cap nut and locking assembly" which can be removed to drain the oil. But is there a problem putting it back? I think syphoning sounds the safest option and in this weather the oil is pretty runny.
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I think syphoning sounds the safest option and in this weather the oil is pretty runny.
Oh no it's not! Unless our summers have got hotter than last year...
... 2 hours is small price to pay if you've got an afternoon free rather than jacking the car up and undoing supension components etc. But yes madf oldman is right, I only managed to get 2/3 - 3/4 out by syphoning, I deemed this enough though :-P
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