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rockola · Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 20 Location: Espoo, Finland

My 924 has been in a garage for two months now (didn't have time to prepare it for the winter, with the sunroof leaking etc.). I went to check on it yesterday for the first time and noticed a largish puddle of oil under the gearbox. I'm planning to let it stay in the garage until late March. Should I do something about this now? What about when I get it back on the road? Is it even possible to add/change the gearbox oil without jacking the car up? I'm not small enough to crawl under there... and I think it says in the Haynes the car should be level when doing this (plus the oil definitely isn't going to get warm from driving any time soon).
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1984 indischrot 924

Lizard · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 1:30 am Post subject:

is it an auto or stick, if stick and it is leaking then you would have to take it out and replace all the seals, if an auto probably just the pan gasket
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CMXXXI · Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 1939 Location: Vicksburg, MS

Which seals are leaking? If it's a manual, you can drain and fill it on the ground, but it's a tight fit to get underneath, as you are well aware. Regardless when you drain/add, or whether or not you put it on stands or a lift, be sure that you can unscrew the fill plug before you drain the gearbox. More than one of us on Board have had real problems getting the fill plug out. Both the fill and drain plugs take a 17mm hex key.
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'79 Eurospec 931

Lizard · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 6:55 am Post subject:

CMXXXI, sorry have to call it on this 1 it is not a 17mm hex hey, it is a 17mm allen key
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Smoothie · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:49 am Post subject:

Hex key, Allen key, big ol' 17mm 6-sided mf-er, or whatever you want to call it - I got one and cut about a 30mm long piece off the end and slip that into a regular 17mm socket. That gets attached to a 1/2" drive ratchet wrench or torque wrench...
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'82 924T, US version, dark green metallic, 5 speed Audi 016G gearbox

Lizard · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:20 am Post subject:

Hex = 12points, allen 6 sides
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Smoothie · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:33 am Post subject:

Is that your final answer?

Actually, "hex" means 6.
hexagon - polygon with 6 sides
hexapod - bug with 6 legs
hexadecimal - number system based on sixteen digits (hexa (6) + decimal (10))
etc.
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"..it's made in Germany. You know the Germans always make good stuff."

'82 924T, US version, dark green metallic, 5 speed Audi 016G gearbox

D Hook · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 3158 Location: Omaha, NE

Smoothie · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 11:30 am Post subject:

hexabilly - hillbilly with 6 heads

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"..it's made in Germany. You know the Germans always make good stuff."

'82 924T, US version, dark green metallic, 5 speed Audi 016G gearbox

Paul · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 12:45 pm Post subject:

I take exception to the hexabilly since I grew up in the hilly section of PA.

Hexabilly means hill billy with 6 TEETH!

Roger · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1235 Location: Cordova, TN

Sorry to say it Liz but

Main Entry: hexa·gon
Pronunciation: 'hek-s&-"gän
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek hexagOnon, neuter of hexagOnos hexagonal, from hexa- + gOnia angle -- more at -GON
Date: 1570
: a polygon of six angles and six sides
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1981 924 NA

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Lizard · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:06 am Post subject:

my bad

I was was thinking of something else
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