TBKBABABTIM Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Supersport 140 build. Just filled gearbox, 5 speed, and reckon I only put about 1.2 litres in before it started to overflow. Do Caterham part fill the gearbox as seems way short of the 1.9 l capacity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stationary M25 Traveller Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 They can't if it was supplied without a propshaft up the rear !! If you were squirting it onto things above the filler hole, did you let it drain down and check again ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBKBABABTIM Posted June 8, 2013 Author Share Posted June 8, 2013 Using a funnel with some piping with a plastic elbow on the end which goes into the hole, just over a litre went in very quickly no problem then filled the funnel about half way and steady trickle then started from the hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted June 8, 2013 Member Share Posted June 8, 2013 You might like to think how you're going to measure the level and refill it in the future. Lots of possibilities: level plug from underneath, level plug through the transmission tunnel, top plate of gearbox. If you're going from underneath you need a cut down bit of hex bar: have a play with this while you've got good access. I know someone used to make a top plate with a filler hole. and I think I recently saw a reference to a top plate with a dipstick: is that available? If it was I'd fit one during the build. Lots on this in the archives. Jonathan Edited by - Jonathan Kay on 8 Jun 2013 09:19:02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBKBABABTIM Posted June 8, 2013 Author Share Posted June 8, 2013 Already made the cut down hex to fit in a ratchet spanner am more worried that I don't seem to be able to get enough oil in. Trickled a little more in and it drips out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny. Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I felt similar when I did mine on Wednesday...........but when it was totaly settled I stuck my little finger in the fill hole and got oil on it so I just reckoned job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mav Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Agree, if its level and oil is dripping from the fill hole it sounds like its full. Put the plug back in and then after POBC and IVA recheck it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBKBABABTIM Posted June 8, 2013 Author Share Posted June 8, 2013 Thanks everyone, think will just ask them to double check at the PBC, maybe they do anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pugwash Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 If I recall correctly mine only took about 1.3l. I was also confused by the manuals claim it would take 1.9l but I had been pre warned this would be the case so after the first litre I poured it in a little at a time. I had a plastic pipe taped to a long thin piece of wood with a funnel on the end gravity fed from above. If its trickling back out the hole then must be full was my conclusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grubbster Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 They only take a bit over a litre, you can't get anywhere near 1.9l in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny. Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I overfilled as the funnel I used was full when oil started coming out of fill hole.... so I was in no mans land. I reckon it took circa 1.5-1.6 litres...........I used the 2 full bottles and it spat the rest out. The bottles were .95 of a litre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I had the exact same issue. Spoke to Phil @ r+r he assured me it held 1.2lts. By this point I had filled it on the floor with 1.9 lts and fitted it. Removed the awkward plug after fitting gear box and sure enough 700 ml ran back out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlesElliott Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 I replace mine every season....and it's only 1.2l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny. Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Very interesting. So with the guys who've drilled and fitted a bung in the top cover for an easy fill, surely they'll put the manuals 1.9l reccomended dosage in. They won't get the drain off we get when doing it with the tube and funnel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBKBABABTIM Posted June 8, 2013 Author Share Posted June 8, 2013 Sounds like its full, I used a hozelock 13mm elbow on the end of about 45 cm of 13mm hose down the side of the gearbox from the engine bay, got at right height twisted the pipe and elbow slots in the hole. Took about 1 minute to fill, then an hour worrying there wasn't enough in and messing about checking car was level and trying to get more in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin J Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 My least favourite job when servicing the 7. Particularly awkward on the metric chassis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hughes Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Older boxes took 1.9l newer ones take 1.2l. They lowered the level/filling plug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k.russell Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbutnotslow Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 This is the very best bit of kit for filling gearbox and differentials HERE Get a 10mm 90 degree copper elbow which is a tight push fit in the plastic pipe and fit a short piece of rubber pipe on to this. Fill the "syringe" with oil and simply push the plunger. Works a treat and avoids oil spillage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birkin S3 ZA. Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Just to add to the Confusion, my TranX 5 speed with the aluminium main casing takes 2 litre by the time it comes out of the level plug. It also has a handy breather filler plug on the top cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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