Damn Type-44 drivetrains! Not another problem?!

[Eyvind Spangen]

On Wed, 30 May 2001 03:29:24 -0400, you wrote:

>I drained and filled the tranny with 3 quarts of Redline MT90 GL-4. Hearing 
>the car only required 2.7 qts, I only had 3 qts on hand. Turns out 3 qts 
>never caused the excess to spill out the filler hole to indicate 'full'. 
>Hmmmm, this tranny now takes 3.4 qts!!!
>I had to drive the car back to Boston on 3 qts. Thinking that given the 
>volume inside the tranny and center diff, 0.4 qt spread across that area 
>wouldn't amount to much height difference in fluid level. And since the 
>tranny used to run on 2.7qts, I thought I had a reasonable margin of safety 
>here.

Same happened to me. Specified 2.6 liter, I filled 3.2 as the Bentley
read, and it still didn't flow out the hole. When feeling with my
finger, the level is about 5 mm below the filler hole. What is
correct? Should I trust the specified, ot just fill it up until fluid
starts dripping out?

I have the exactly same experience as you regarding bushings. I bought
my '90 200TQ and found almost all rubber bushings + front control arms
(expen$ive) to need replacement. Type $$? You bet.. :-)

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Regards,
ES