Some maintenance actions such as changing the engine oil may seem obvious and fundamental, although others such as changing the gearbox oil from its Nissan Murano may seem to be less natural. Nevertheless, make no mistake, changing the gearbox is just as important as changing the engine oil. This content will show you the function of the gearbox oil, then, why it is vital to replace the gearbox of your Nissan Murano, and finally, how to replace the gearbox oil of a Nissan Murano .
Purpose of gearbox oil on a Nissan Murano
So we begin our content with the function of gearbox oil on a Nissan Murano. The objective of this short introduction is to make you understand the interest of this fluid which ensures the good performance of your motor vehicle. The gearbox of your car has the mission to demultiply the power transferred by the engine and send it back to your wheels . It is done up of pinions and gears that will allow the wheels to rotate at different speeds depending on the curves and the gear engaged. It will function with the help of an axle and a differential. All these parts will need to be highly lubricate to action accurately, limit friction and tolerate the high temperatures produced by the engine and friction. Your transmission oil has a high viscosity and will prevent the formation of filings or gear breakage, so it is necessary to the correct performing of the gearbox.
Why replacing the gearbox oil from a Nissan Murano?
Now we’ll see what’s the point of draining the gearbox oil of your Nissan Murano?
Benefit of gearbox oil changing Nissan Murano
There are some concerns to replace the gearbox of your motor vehicle regularly, we will list them and outline them below:
- With time, the oil will lose its viscosity because of friction and temperature rise, which will result in less lubrication of the gears and pinions and therefore risk to break some of them.
- Same as viscosity, time and temperature rise will lower the oil resistance to the engine temperature, So it will fluidize much more easily when the engine heats up, which is not good for your gearbox.
- Accumulation of metallic residues: Finally, even if you constantly have a quality oil, a gearbox is an component that wears out and produces iron filings with friction, the oil will pick them up and if it gathers up too much these residues can get into gears and break them.
When to do the gearbox oil replace on a Nissan Murano?
If you want to do an automatic or manual gearbox oil change on Nissan Murano or strong> the procedure is not the same, however, dealers do not give mileage suggestions to replace the oil in your gearbox, on the other hand when you do an intervention on the gearbox it is advisable to replace it, otherwise here are the factors to make you think about doing this oil replace.
Oil replace for manual gearbox Nissan Murano
- Gears are jumping: you are probably missing oil and you might have a gearbox oil leak, please see our content page on gearbox leaks on Nissan Murano for more info.
- The gearbox cracks when you switch gears: The oil has undoubtedly lost viscosity and is too fluid, so the gears get stuck.
- Difficulty to shift gears: Same problem as just before, the oil is obviously too fluid.
Automatic gearbox oil replace
- A slow begin from the neutral position to the first one: often a viscosity problem.
- Difficulty or even impossibility to shift gears: Lack of oil
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How to replace gearbox oil of a Nissan Murano?
At last, to end this content page, we will show you you how to empty the gearbox oil of your Nissan Murano , it’s much easier than you might believe, here are the few steps to stick to to do it accurately:
- Heat your Nissan Murano for about 10 minutes to get a fluid oil, place it flat on 4 stands.
- Install a drain pan under the drain plug, open it, and clean it well because it will probably gather filings.
- Let all the oil run out until it’s all gone.
- Change and tighten the cap, then fill with a syringe through the filler cap with the manufacturer’s recommended dose
In the event that you have any further questions about the Nissan Murano, do not hesitate to consult our Nissan Murano category.
