The old 'transmission oil in footwell' thing

[frostbite]

For anyone who has a late nineties car that is prone to automatic transmission oil finding it's way up the wires to the TCU and the footwell, this is the best explanation of how to fix it by changing the connector on the gearbox. I have now done this and it was quite easy.

Note however; if, like the lady in the video, you are not draining all the fluid out to change it (and the filter), take heed of how high she has jacked the front of the car up. I hadn't jacked mine up so high and so the oil had not dropped to the back of the sump as much as hers, so that about a litre of fluid fell on my head as soon as I pulled the connector out :doh. Several hours later, I am now clean but have to get some more oil. Had I been watching, not doing it, it would have been much funnier!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nv3c_TcAmQ

 

[AMGeed]

I was very disappointed to find the youtube link wasn't a video of your head being covered in a litre of dirty oil

Signed
Disappointed of Poole.

 

[frostbite]

I was very disappointed to find the youtube link wasn't a video of your head being covered in a litre of dirty oil

Signed
Disappointed of Poole.

Had I known it would happen, I would have ensured it was captured on video for all time!

 

[E55BOF]

Useful link that. Thank you.

Though I have to say, when I went to do this job on my old E55 W210 as preventive maintenance, the plug was so tight I could not shift it with hand pressure alone, and I chickened out of using pliers for fear of breaking the plastic and being worse off than when I started (it was not leaking). I still have the new plug, so if it goes on the E55K, I can try again...

 

[frostbite]

Useful link that. Thank you.

Though I have to say, when I went to do this job on my old E55 W210 as preventive maintenance, the plug was so tight I could not shift it with hand pressure alone, and I chickened out of using pliers for fear of breaking the plastic and being worse off than when I started (it was not leaking). I still have the new plug, so if it goes on the E55K, I can try again...

I wondered if that might happen on mine (happily it all came out easily), I had conjured up a sort of tourniquet/oil filter wrench thing with a fat cable tie in case the tab snapped off. If the old one breaks it doesn't matter as such as you're putting in a new one,as long as you can still get the old one out somehow.