Transmission fill point

[Castlegreyskull]

i have a 89 telstar ghia 2.2ltr, and i chaged the clutch over on the weekend, and everything went fine and dandy except for the fact i cant seem to find/work out where to fill the transmission up from.

I can find the drain point on the bottom of the housing, and there is a plug about 100mm up the housing, but it seems a little too close to the bottom for it to be a fill point, and when i took that plug out, oil ****ed out of there. Now in my opinion when i took the axle out of the diff/tranny oil came out, so there should have been a little less oil there, so it shouldnt have ****ed out the plug that i removed from the sire of the housing.

So i think that makes sense....lol

Anyways if someone could tell me where the fill point for them are, You will make me a very happy man.

cheers

BEN

[dirty hands]

this is for the 87 telstar so should be the same
for manual
remove the speedo cable and drive and fill the gearbox there
I use a funnel and length of garden hose
the speedo drive is the dip stick top of the cog drive is the low point the beguining of the metal above the drive cog is full
oil level should be between these two points

for auto the dip stick marks

[BIG XR]

well im not familiar with this model but most auto's you fill through the dipstick tube. if it doesn't a dipstick tube then your filling piont should be the speedo drive. if so it should have hot and cold marks on the speedo drive.

[Castlegreyskull]

ah ok. the speedo drive is the dipstick/fill point hey.... Well ya learn something new everyday.

Cheers for that boys, muchly appreciated.

BEN

[Castlegreyskull]

I have another question that i forgot to ask about before.

When i take my foot off the clutch it takes a while for the pedal to come back up. It wasnt doing this before i did the clutch change, so it is obvious i have stuffed something up, or done something wrong.

The clutch feels fine when you are pressing it down to the floor, but when you want the pedal to come back up, it takes a bit longer for it to come up (if you press clutch all the way down, and quickly release foot off pedal, it takes about 1 second or so for the clutch to catch up with your foot at full stroke)

I am just wondering if anyone would be able to help me on this situation.

Thanks

BEN

[dirty hands]

spray the return spring under the dash pedal box with wd 40
dust gets there

[Castlegreyskull]

i will try that, but im not sure that is it. it was working perfectly fine just before i changed the clutch. was making a bit of a squeaking noise in the pedal box, but the pedal wasnt getting stuck.

but i shall try it tommorrow.

cheers

[dirty hands]

then still air in the clutch hydraulics or faulty master or slave unit
then check slaves return spring