This afternoon I banged out another maintenance item when I changed the fluid in the MT82 6 Speed Manual. The fluid that came out at 10k miles looked great and yeah it smelled a little funky. Not horrible like a lot of posters said. It's just different. Not as bad as like hypoid gear oil IMO.
Instead of pumping the fluid in, I bought a six foot section of 7/16" clear tubing which I connected to a vintage Coleman lantern funnel. I snaked the tubing down and into the fill hole. The funnel end I hooked to a hole in the hood with a very small bungie cord. It worked great. Before I started I dumped out 8 oz of fluid from one bottle so I ended up with 2.75 quarts of fluid. I used the stock stuff called out in the manual because my MT82 works incredibly well. I will likely try Redline MTL at some point but for now this is working very well for me.
To help things along I had the fluid on my black toolbox on my truck all day warming up. It was 70* today. ;D
The plugs use an 8mm allen wrench. There's not enough room to use my 8mm hex "socket."
![Feb52012AfternnonMT82008.jpg Feb52012AfternnonMT82008.jpg](https://trackmustangsonline.com/data/attachments/19/19896-e867316b81dda8bea8cc787f1b544093.jpg)
Instead of pumping the fluid in, I bought a six foot section of 7/16" clear tubing which I connected to a vintage Coleman lantern funnel. I snaked the tubing down and into the fill hole. The funnel end I hooked to a hole in the hood with a very small bungie cord. It worked great. Before I started I dumped out 8 oz of fluid from one bottle so I ended up with 2.75 quarts of fluid. I used the stock stuff called out in the manual because my MT82 works incredibly well. I will likely try Redline MTL at some point but for now this is working very well for me.
To help things along I had the fluid on my black toolbox on my truck all day warming up. It was 70* today. ;D
The plugs use an 8mm allen wrench. There's not enough room to use my 8mm hex "socket."
![Feb52012AfternnonMT82005.jpg Feb52012AfternnonMT82005.jpg](https://trackmustangsonline.com/data/attachments/19/19894-d553b7815e48ecf4b637e50691221a0a.jpg)
![Feb52012AfternnonMT82007.jpg Feb52012AfternnonMT82007.jpg](https://trackmustangsonline.com/data/attachments/19/19895-b625ef873898eccf821cd0e319f07ad1.jpg)
![Feb52012AfternnonMT82008.jpg Feb52012AfternnonMT82008.jpg](https://trackmustangsonline.com/data/attachments/19/19896-e867316b81dda8bea8cc787f1b544093.jpg)