How to drain voyager manual gearbox?

Discussion in 'Voyager' started by Mikko, Nov 15, 2003.

  1. Mikko

    Mikko Guest

    I found out that the gear box oil of my '98 has turned into black sludge
    (it's 5 gear manual tranny). I decided to change the oil, but can't find
    where to drain oil out. Is the hex bolt under the tranny the drain plug?

    The user's manual recommends to use mopar's own lubricant (mobil's
    product) or SAE 10W30 motor oil. Parts store guys checked their mobil
    manual and it told to use 5W40 fully synthetic motor oil. Any
    experiences on motor oil in tranny? The gears are quite hard to shift,
    especially after cold start. I want to get rid of this problem and
    thought that here at north where temperature drops below -25 deg. c, it
    might be a good idea to use synthetic instead of mineral oil that
    Chrysler uses.

    Lubing the levers leading from shifter wires to gearbox helped a little
    bit, but I hope changing the lubricant would solve the hard shifting
    problem.

    One funny thing I've noticed when checking levels on my Neon and
    Voyager; the both should have the oil level reaching to the filler plug
    hole level, but they've been overfilled ad the factory; when I pulled of
    the plug, the both flooded oil quite much. Maybe they fill some extra in
    there at the factory?
     
    Mikko, Nov 15, 2003
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