so having never touched a gearbox before and with the help of ryszard who has also never touched the gearbox before we changed the 2/4 solenoid and while we had the engine cover of and the intercooper pipe off checked the EGR and it wasnt too bad however we ended up stripping it and the manifold and soaking them in dishwasher tabs while doing the gearbox ... didnt drop the gearbox oil just the front plate was careful to catch it all and measure it only 800ml with the car tilted right back so just replaced the 800ml as I intend to get Phil to do a full box oil change very soon as its black
end result a bit pokier and it changed gear nicely again now
so a good day
the offending item
the state of the gear box oil
hey thats not the gearbox you're stripping
somewhere in here is a manifold and EGR
sparkly ..well more so anyway would have spent more time on it but need the car back together
