Morning all
I am going to change my n/s drive shaft, in the manual it state that you need to drain the g/box oil if it is a manual g/box.
Mine is an auto so do I need to drain the oil also.

Thank you for any help. 1988 Range Rover
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Normally the gearbox side drive shaft is keeping the fluid in the box, so pulling the shaft allows the fluid to pore out. Hyundai Ioniq 5 Ultimate. The family car.
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I changed both driveshafts driveshaft recently , oil will come out as both the nsf and osf driveshaft seals are below the level of autobox fluid in the transmission pan

I found that if you undo the small T30 drain plug approx a litre comes out, which brings the fluid level in the pan beneath the level of the driveshaft seals. You can then safely remove the driveshafts without any fluid loss whatsoever and add back what you drained at the end.

A lot easier and much less messy.

if you jack the car up a little higher than required when changing the drive shaft no oil will escape I have done a cv boot recently and found this worked fine

jimbowats wrote:

I changed both driveshafts driveshaft recently , oil will come out as both the nsf and osf driveshaft seals are below the level of autobox fluid in the transmission pan

I found that if you undo the small T30 drain plug approx a litre comes out, which brings the fluid level in the pan beneath the level of the driveshaft seals. You can then safely remove the driveshafts without any fluid loss whatsoever and add back what you drained at the end.

A lot easier and much less messy.

Boxa wrote:

if you jack the car up a little higher than required when changing the drive shaft no oil will escape I have done a cv boot recently and found this worked fine