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gear oil.
Topic Started: Mar 5 2013, 09:15 PM (692 Views)
brohamjeff
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When removing engine for rebuild do you need to drain gear oil? I hope not. It is rather expensive.
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brohamjeff
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Also. If you remove the transmission do you have to drain the gear oil and what not
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Just because you drain it does not mean you have to throw it away. Save it and reuse it.
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You have to pull the axles out of the transmission to remove it. The gear oil can run out of those holes. I've thought about trying to leave the gear oil in but my luck the transmission would fall off the jack and drain onto the floor.
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RONNIEREDLINE
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take a spare axle end and shove it in each hole?
works for a rear wheel drive car to dont it?
i use and old driveshaft yoke for the rear wheel drive cars
trying to help
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Edited by RONNIEREDLINE, Mar 5 2013, 09:53 PM.
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I removed one engine and installed 2 and left the transmission alone. Both of the cars listed below. If you remove the crank pulley the removal and install go fairly easy. That's for frame clearance. Removing manifolds etc. helps also. :-/

It is possible to tilt the car to such an angle so when you remove/replace one drive shaft you will not loose any gear oil.

But yeah, like blue rhino says, clean the drain bolt area really good, drain the pricey oil into a clean container and reuse it. Could even filter it when you refill the transmission. Works for coolant also. :-/
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you can use a shop towel to filter coolant, put the towel over the funnel and poor in.
as for the oil, go get a paint strainer and put it in a funnel, pour in and ta daa.
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Strictly speaking, I think most people don't use typical gear oil. There is a product especially made for the type of manual transmission used in the Metro. It is called syncromesh, there are several brands, and is fairly common. It is sold in the oil section of the store. It is very thin, and made to protect gold color metals (brass, bronze) in the transmission.

For a rebuild I think it is probably easier to pull only the motor, not the motor and transmission.
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Alrighty then. So to rebuild. You can just pull the engine and leave the transmission alone? And this way you don't even have to worry about the gear oil at all? Sorry if this sounds redundant, I'm just trying to get all the info consolidated. Glad to know the gear oil can be reused
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Wait a second. Gear oil isn't that expensive. I swear I was looking at something that was on the oreilly website that was $198 dollars
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Now, now don't believe everything you read on the Internet. :rofl

If you got 10 quarts of Synchromesh it might cost $140 but not $198. Your transmission would only use 2.5 quarts.
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Synchromesh costs $8 a quart.
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Its only engine oil in the crank case.
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If you pull the transmission, I wouldn't re-use the lube. How long has the lube been in? A month? If so, then re-use. If a year or more, just use new. I changed my transmission fluid when I got my car and it was so nasty I changed it AGAIN a few days after the first change. Geo Glenn suggested I do this and use cheap motor oil for the first flush and drive it a bit. I did and then replaced with the synchromesh.

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