I have a powerpoint presentation with the play by play of doing this oil change. but I cant access my webspace from here.. I will email it to anyone who can host it so we can all check it out here.
The job was fairly trouble free and quite satisfying to do. But the whole thing about lifetime fill just makes me angry.
My car has lots of km on it - 180 000km. As far as I know the transfer case oil has never been changed. There are absolutely no signs of a leak under my car. Every part of the drivetrain is dry as a bone. I certainly did not expect to find what I did inside. When I drained the oil only a half cup of dark thick oil came out.. hardly the 550 ml that are supposed to be there. I cant imagine where the oil went, maybe just kinda evaporated from the heat of the exhaust next to it.
either way, the service was LONG overdue and I refilled and flushed the case with a gear oil and engine flush mixture twice and then a third time with oil only. so in total I drained it 4 times to get it clean inside.. The final fill was with redline 75W140
I dont know how on earth they can say never change the oil.
on top of it all .. the driveline is SOOOOOO Much quiter now that there is oil in the transfer case.

 

http://1cbh.spaces.live.com/photos/c...DC839F192!202/the pics are on my msn page.. take a look.. but no script..

Yes I know that you cant drain the last 50ml, but since I flushed it 3 times... I think it will be ok.. certainly better than where it was..

Oh ya.. and JTIS is not clear on the whole thing at all... the fill plug is inaccessible, and they go through a major surgery to drain the fluid... makes no sense at all. they dont even mention the drain plug that is there.