checking/filling gearbox oil

Agreed I have a 2 post lift and a nice warm garage and it is a pig of a job to get the oil in there.

It's not a failure to accept that sometimes you have to use a local garage if you do not have the facilities.

Don't do it on a Halfords (or any) car park, it's one of the most dangerous places in the world.
People are happy to drive around it at excessive speed, bump into your car, or simply just drive over the poor Halfords employees who are in plain sight in high viz as they attend to a bulb.
Your legs sticking out from under the vehicle will be a fair unseen target.

I am one of the poor targets

Work colleague got his leg broken in one such incident.

I had some success refilling using the 1 litre plastic oil cans with the build in spout (The 4 inch long half inch diameter type spouts, not the short fat ones). I was able to get the whole oil can up beside the gearbox with the spout in the fill hole and squeeze about 700ml from the can into the gearbox. Doing this with 2 cans, then pouring the leftover 300ml from one can into the other and repeating the process, I was able to get the oil up to the correct level relatively easily.

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I will say to check you can undo the filler plug before trying to drain it, as thats critical.

The best tool I have found for filling it up is one of these:

+1 VOTE for the above tool^^^
I have one which I use on my Landy, not seen action on Jimny yet, but should work just as good.

You two must have the fabled ones that do not leak via going past the piston and out the hole the pushrod comes out.

I have binned a few 500ml ones and two of these due to looseing loads of oil via the pushrod.. These ones are circa £35 and they have double seals on the pistons that leak.

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