Rear Differential & Transfer Case

[Lexmex]

Another shot, notice the purple color has kept its consistency, but not surprising for the amount of time.

[Lexmex]

Shot of the drain hole.

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Now here comes the fun.

My Uncle Antonio takes the bottle of gear oil and uses and old bottle from Royal Purple to fill it up with.

[Lexmex]

See the hose, you'll get the idea shortly.

[Lexmex]

My cousin Carlos is now attaching the hose to the filler hole while my Uncle Antonio looks on.

[Lexmex]

Now you get the idea.

[Lexmex]

Now we hold the bottle up high and squeeze. Eventually toward the end of the bottle, rear differential hold .9L, but the bottle is .946 liters unofficially since they poured it out of a drum, you have to blow air into the tube to push the last remainder of fluid.

[TunedRX300]

Great pictures. Suction gun is also what I used, need to get my gear oil replaced with Amsoil 75w-90, now it is almost three years on Mobil 1 75w-90

[carguy07]

Thanks for the great how too's!

Most of the jobs I have done now have been written up with tons of pics. Makes it a much easier job, almost like you have done it before.


I used the harbor freight suction gun too. I think I will open it up to load it next time though. I was getting a lot of air in it since the gear oil is so thick. I ended up "using" a little more than a quart to do the transfer case since like any other job, I had to leave a decent puddle on the ground.

[lexus114]

sounds like a good idea carguy,the next best thing i saw was on e-bay,a pump ran by your electric drill.

[Lexmex]

If one of you is going to be near Bradenton, Florida, just south of Tampa, and has an AWD and is looking to do this, let me know as I might help you out in about a month or so, as I plan to leave Mexico early April.

[hitthepin]

Originally Posted by Lexmex

If one of you is going to be near Bradenton, Florida, just south of Tampa, and has an AWD and is looking to do this, let me know as I might help you out in about a month or so, as I plan to leave Mexico early April.

So will you have to change your handle to "LexFlorida" now.

[Lexmex]

Originally Posted by hitthepin

So will you have to change your handle to "LexFlorida" now.

Or something like LexFlo.

[6.0PSD]

This pic is to test if the resizing works. If it goes through this pic shows the RX on front ramps, driveway pitches down toward street so about half way up on ramps makes truck level and helps with some extra room under there. Of course my King had to get in the pic.

[6.0PSD]

Left jar is front gear oil followed by rear gear oil in center jar and comparing it to standard gl5 new oil on right. I wonder if that oil has ever been changed in the 83k that the original owner owned it. It's pretty dark. Both Front and Rear fill and drain plugs were a b---h to come off. the drain on front I used a stubby 15/16 with a thin wall 12 point, banged wrench with a rock a few times and it came loose



BTW, what's in the jars is not all the oil that came out. I just wanted to get most in there to see how nice and clean it came out, ewwww. Bought cheap tomato sauce at Walmart so that I could use the jars, they were $1 each and sauce actually smelled pretty good, almost like ragu.