Today I braved the New England cold and did a drain and refill on the rear differential. Well, not really a drain because once I took the plug out, the damn thing was empty! Not even a slight trickle, and the plug magnet was loaded with crappy sludge. Pretty much the same situationI had with the TC fluid change. On that I got about 5 ounces out. Yeah, "sealed for life" mybutt cheeks....what a bunch of boloney. The rear diff change is pretty easy though. If you're like me (short fat fingers) its a bitof a challenge until you figure out the best way to contort yourbody into a pretzel whilecramped under the car and lying on the cold ground. I used the same fluid I put in the TC - Sta Flo synthetic 75-140. The next project is the tranny fluid. Onward and upward!!

 

I am living vicariously thru you...

 

Christo, bring your Jag over to my place. Doing the TC oil change is a piece of cake. Now, I won't promise what we will find when we pull off the drain plug. he he he hehe.

 

I think I might be able to swing a ride to VA this summer. Maybe we can get a few members, some beer, get the grill going and you can change everyones fluids - hahahaha! Hey are you near the ocean?

 

ofcourse nothing would have come out when you opened the plug on the differential. That is where you fill the fluid from. To drain you need to suck it out or remove parts of the rear axels to access the diff cover.

 

where in VA... I mean if you guys are going to have food and all....

 

Damn! You're right! S**T!!!!!! So, I guess I mixed the new stuff with the bad. But I gotta tell you that inasmuch as I flubbed this one up, it took a lot of fluid being pumped in before it began to trickle out. So, I'm gonna still believe that it was pretty darn empty in there. Is this a safe guess?

 

christo, by this summer, I probably will not be living in Virginia. I'm in the process of getting a new job and where that will be, who knows. If I do stay in the area, yes, I am only a few miles from the ocean. If we do it on a Friday or Saturday, Virginia Beach does all sorts of concerts down on the beach. So, once i figure out where I am going, I will let everyone know. one of the interesting job I am considering at the moment is in Southern Ohio working for USEC (US Enrichment Corp). I would be helping them construct a new building for converting russian warheads to useable nuclear fuel for in US reactors. Nothing big. LMAO.

 

PMSL

 

Wow, top secret info only on Jagforum.com

 

BUCKMR2, it isn't top secret stuff. Do a search on the "Megaton to Megawatt program". It will lead you to http://www.usec.com. They are the ones responsible for this. So far they have converted just over 10,000 warheads. There is a counter on the USEC website.

 

Thermo....I was JOKING

 

Buck, i know you are. I thought you might find it interesting in what that the US is using to power their reactors with. What once was there to kill us is now keeping us alive. How ironic.

 

Nothing goes to waste! How many warheads did Russia have?

 

Christo, the total number I don't think anyone will ever truely know. I know the megaton to megawatt program is removing 20,000 warheads just from Russia. The problem is that once the russian land started to break up, they lost track of who had what and what was stored where. So, as you can imagine, this is leaving a lot of open questions in the minds of those involved in national security. The scary part for me is that a lot of the missing warheads are those that are labeled "briefcase" size. Most of these are in the 10-50 KT size and were literally built in a large brief case. These were specifically built to be carried into a location by hand and then detonated. To put this into perspective, a 50 KT weapon is capable of leveling an area say the size of Manhattan. So, you can imagine if these fell into the hands of the wrong people, the mess that it can create is pretty ugly. The bigger fear that I have is once one is detonated, garantee me that there won't be retalitory strikes. You know once the genie is let out of the bottle........

If you do some looking on the internet, you will get some rough numbers. Part of the problem is that the number of warheads was normally kept classified to not let any other side know the true capabilities. Even after all the SALT weapons reductions and whatnot, we still have enough warheads to have complete nuclear annihalation like 3 times over. Back during the cold war, it was far, far worse than that.

Just some food for thought.

 

I did myfirst dif oil change today. The car is 2003 with 100,000km (~60,000 miles). I have only owned it for a year (30,000 km).Like others I was only able to pump out 600 mls of black gungy fluid. I probably left about 100 mls of old stuff in there as it started to overflow at 1100 mls of new fluid, but I do not feel too bad about 10% crap in the box vs 100%.

The old lubricant seemed to be almost watery in consistency - nothing like the new fluid.

The job took about an hour including clean-up, using ramps, jackstands and a crawler. A hoist would be sooooo nice but I don't have enough headroom in my garage.

Brian

 

Diff or transfer case? By the amounts of fluid it looks like the tc.It looks like you may have over filled it, butI guess that is ok if you dont mind it over flowing the excess. I have the same year car with just about the same miles. Are you on the stock tc? What fluid did you go with?