This week’s work on the series III: I’ve been working on the
oil levels. Quite a ride, I must say!
The engine oil, was well over the “high” mark, like 3 L. overfilled,
I want to remove the oil sump later on, so I didn’t change the oil just yet,
but made sure the level is correct for now (I barely move the LRS anyway).
After that I moved to the gear box, … *empty*, I mean
it, just empty, no wonder the gears were a little hard when warm (good thing I don’t
move this truck much). Of course all the oil had transferred to the transfer
box (I am wondering if that is why it’s call that J), there was well over 1L. of
overfill, very possible it’s just the gearbox oil moving here. All the nuts
holding the bottom of the transfer were loose, no wonder it was leaking a bit.
And to finish it up, the overdrive, was…. Well, you can say it
with me *empty*, I am puzzled with this one as I don’t see any visible
leaks (yet) so we’ll see what happens with the oil I put on.
I can’t find EP90, so I had to use EP80/90 which is better
than no oil anyway.
I also have used this combination of a 10mm ½” socket and an
Allen wrench (10mm obviously) that works well on the square level screws on the
boxes.
I am going to make myself a tool from a big screw to be able
to drain the boxes and diffs as I haven’t seen many drag link sockets here and
I doubt there is one this big (22x11x7 mm the rectangular part I believe).
On to the differentials, the front one, a tiny bit overfill
and clean, so far so good and the rear one…. You are right, *empty* and
to make it even more fun the square screw on the diffs is slightly bigger than ½”
so I was not able to use my ad-hoc tool for this… LR couldn’t use the *same*
screws everywhere, could they?... plus whoever did the screw last time over-torqued
it and the square was barely visible… way to go, whoever did that!!
Well, it looks like all the liquids are correct for now,
down the road, as I see what is wrong with the LR, I’ll be changing oils, brake
fluid and so on, but for now, I just want all the levels correct, so I can try
the truck a little bit and see what is broken and what seals need replacing.
A few more parts will make their way this coming week and
then I should be able to do some serious maintenance on the engine (valve’s
clearance, air filter, diesel system, sump clean up, coolant and cleanup of
radiator, ….), of course, I won’t do it *all* next week, it will take me
a little while, but at least I should have all the stuff I need to work on it,
whenever I have the time.
That’s all for now.
