JerryK
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- Joined
- Feb 21, 2004
- Messages
- 3,240
- Location
- Vanderbilt, Michigan, USeh?
- Tractor
- Mahindra (2011)5035 HST TLB & (2016)2555 HST Cab & (2017)1526 HST(2018)Cub Cadet Pro Z 154L (1991) Caterpillar E70B
The manual shows just one trans/differential drain plug, but there are actually three. They all have magnets, so you should pull and clean all three. The three plugs are painted red in the below picture [ you can barely see the middle one AND sorry about the weird angle ]. The red ' X ' is on the half of the driveshaft shield you have to remove.. Oil change was pretty simple to do, but took me three days of puttering and look seeing.... Had one little cast iron splatter piece about the size of a flattened pencil lead about 3/4" long stuck to one magnet, a little cast iron colored dust on each magnet, and a few tiny slivers of what looked like drill scaping on the sump screen. Really looked clean inside the casings. Took a full two gallons of crankcase oil and the whole 10 gallons of trans/hyd fluid...
