gearbox oil capacity

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Post Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:00 pm

anyone know the oil capacity of the M3 dogleg box (or possibly a 323 dog leg - not sure which one it is) ??
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Post Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:08 pm

gearbox/diff you just fill up until there over flowing out of the filler plug.

THink its around a litre in both
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Post Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:11 pm

thanks - i am buying some specialist gear/diff oil and wnat to make sure that 1L of each will be enough !!
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Post Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:26 pm

Only problem I found is that filling the gearbox when its in the car, you may not be able to get all of the oil out of the bottle.... But a litre was o.k for me
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