June 29 (Day 150) - Townsville part 3

Monday 29 June

On this lovely morning we enjoyed pancakes altogether and then Greg and Jonathan changed the transfer case fluid in the car while the kids climbed trees, read books, played board games and rode around on bikes and made up other games together.  I enjoyed lots of cuddles with Chloe while chatting to Maxanne.

Later in the day Greg went with Jonathan and Joshua to a rental place they help to manage to help install a new kitchen

 

Pajero

The morning transfer case fluid change was a pretty easy job - just unscrew the drain plug, let the old stuff run out, and then refill with a hand pump.

Even though the old fluid looked pretty good when it came out, it was still considerably darker than the new stuff, so it was worth changing.

Transfer case fluid. New on left, old on right.

After they came back from doing the kitchen, they changed the fluid in the front and rear differentials. Greg had checked this before we left Adelaide and they still looked OK, but again once it was drained out you could see the difference! 

Differential fluid. New (bottom left), front diff (top centre), rear diff (bottom right)

 It looked like the rear diff fluid had been changed, possibly at the 180,000km service when it was due, but they may have not bothered with the front diff. Anyway they're all clean now.

They then went onto the fuel filter, which was pretty grotty as well!

Eww! Lots of sediment floating in the fuel filter. And the ends of the filter element
(through the holes) is supposed to be white!

All the contaminants on the fuel tank side of the filter. Lucky there IS a fuel filter!

They went very late, not finishing until after 12 as they had a good old chat afterwards!

-- Mim