Grippa
New Member
AAAAAAAAAAAARGH! Right, here's my Sunday evening rant.
Went out this morning to check/change all the oils on my (relatively new to me) Deepender (had it a couple of weeks now & still grinning). Well when I drained a little of the gearbox oil I recognised the heady smell of EP90, not the expected ATF!
Bluddy, bluddy morons! I don't know if the previous owner had done it or the last garage he misguidedly took it to. WHY DON'T PEOPLE CHECK WHAT THEY'RE DOING BEFORE THEY BLUDGEON ON?
I can only hope it hasn't done too much damage. I suspect it may have been like it a while as the goo that came out was far from pretty & the guy I bought it from sort of hinted at slow clunky gearchanges. I'd noticed an increasing reluctance to go into gear too & expected to find a low level or perhaps a leak. NOT EPBLUDDY90!
Thank feck I'm well aquainted with the smell of the stuff (thanks to my recently departed III). Well, shifts ain't bluddy sticky now, within a quarter mile it was shifting noticeably better & after a short green lane this afternoon (just to get the ATF around the low box & stuff you unnerstan') it's positively silky by comparison.
Footnote: Oh lawks, now I've actually found a day dry enough to have a good poke around unnerneeth, dodgy fluids in me gearbox are the least of my worries! Well, there's my work cut out until Spring then!
Went out this morning to check/change all the oils on my (relatively new to me) Deepender (had it a couple of weeks now & still grinning). Well when I drained a little of the gearbox oil I recognised the heady smell of EP90, not the expected ATF!
Bluddy, bluddy morons! I don't know if the previous owner had done it or the last garage he misguidedly took it to. WHY DON'T PEOPLE CHECK WHAT THEY'RE DOING BEFORE THEY BLUDGEON ON?
I can only hope it hasn't done too much damage. I suspect it may have been like it a while as the goo that came out was far from pretty & the guy I bought it from sort of hinted at slow clunky gearchanges. I'd noticed an increasing reluctance to go into gear too & expected to find a low level or perhaps a leak. NOT EPBLUDDY90!
Thank feck I'm well aquainted with the smell of the stuff (thanks to my recently departed III). Well, shifts ain't bluddy sticky now, within a quarter mile it was shifting noticeably better & after a short green lane this afternoon (just to get the ATF around the low box & stuff you unnerstan') it's positively silky by comparison.
Footnote: Oh lawks, now I've actually found a day dry enough to have a good poke around unnerneeth, dodgy fluids in me gearbox are the least of my worries! Well, there's my work cut out until Spring then!
