Well did the fluid change today.
There is a
good write up already out there so this is just to add my experience.
Began armed with a box with 12l of Mobil 3309 from Opie.
Firstly after wasting a lot of time visiting several places looking for some suitable clear hose and failing - all I could find was washer hose which was too narrow... my wife pointed out that our brewing kit syphon hose was spot on so that was used (easily replaced from any brew shop) Connected it to a standard 100mm plastic funnel from Halfrauds and the 'kit' was sorted.
Then car up on ramps on the drive.
Next to find the dipstick. All I can say is that it is deeeep down tightly beneath some hose front right of the engine as you look at it. See the pics above. After getting underneath and locating it from there I had a look from above. I managed to get a torch beam on it by shining it down and to the right from the front right corner of the air box.
Getting a hand to it required removal of the air inlet pipe. So, it was left hand down the resulting gap near the engine, torch and me looking from the right and fiddle until you have it. Quite easy really but took me a good hour to figure out I have to admit
Once removed, same idea for feeding in the tube.
Then washing up bowl under car. Remove plug as per pics above.
First drop gave 3.4l of thick black muck! There's some properly thick gunge at the bottom of the bowl too. Magnet on the plug had a good coating of muck say pea sized in total.
In went the same volume of new stuff and the old went in the empty bottles.
Replaced plug, dipstick and air pipe and went for drive.
Repeated this again. This time turning on the engine for about 10 seconds once the drain flow slowed.
This time 3.8l, still very very dark with a hint of red.
Same again.
This time 3.9l... Still quite dark but with more red evident.
So. I've now gone through 11.1 litres of the good stuff and I recon that I'll need to do at least one more drop before I'm happy to leave it. However, it clearly needed doing. You'd never leave the engine circulating the crap that came out of the transmission so why on earth Volvo could consider the box 'sealed for life' I do not know.
I'll still do a single drop at each service from now on I think. Overall not a difficult job if I managed it but a bit time consuming doing the initial 3 flushes.
...oh and I don't seem to have an undertray to the engine. Need to get one.
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