I recently bought a 1998 Disco 1 and I'm totally noob to any mechanical work on a Rover, although I perform maintenance on my other cars. I have some questions regarding DiscoMike's grocery list and procedure. I believe that my questions will also help other persons on this forum so it would be cool to make a sticky post with that, just like the parts suppliers in USA.

Here is DiscoMike's grocery list:
This is the parts list for a 60,000 mile service the way I do it.
1 Oil filter , K&N 3001
1 Air filter
1 Transmission filter kit
6 Qts of engine oil
12 Qts of ATF
7 Qts of 80/90W gear oil
2 Qts of Brake fluid
2 Qts of synthetic Power steering fluid
2 Gallons of OAT, orange coolant
1 Bottle of Lucas Power Steering additive
1 Bottle of Lucas Transsmission additive
1 Can of Spray Carb Spray
1 Can Of Brake cleaner
8 Spark Plugs, I use Bosch Platium Plus 4's
1 Set of Magnacor 8mm plug wires
1 Serpentine belt if not yet replaced
2 Bottles of SeaFoam

The only power steering additives I found in Quebec are "stop leak" kind of additives. Is this the kind of additive I need? Same for the transmission additive, "transmission fix, limits transmission slipping" etc. kind of additives. Are those rightor I'm way out in the left field?

Now here are the instructions:
Bleed the brakes
Flush and change the power steering fluid adding one bottle of additive
Service the tranny adding one bottle of additive
Flush the coolant system
Do an engine flush before changing the oil
Do an induction cleaning
Clean the throttle body
Add fuel additive to full gas tank
Change both od the diffs fluid
Change the t/case oil
Replace the plugs and wires
Replace the air filter
Lube all the drive shaft grease fitting including the 2 slip shafts
Do full inspection of brakes, hoses, bushings etc.

When comes the time to service the tranny, what is the procedure? My guess is that I should remove the pan, change the filter etc. But since I'm a highly visual person (and I'm probably not the only one) it would be great to have instructions with pictures or at least detailed instructions. I know it has been done for the plugs and wires step. Same for the induction cleaning, the throttle body cleaning, cooland replacement (since there are a few air bleeders on the system), ps fluid flush. I'm volunteer build that kind of post but I would need precise instructions to perform my maintenance properly. Thanks for any advice, comment etc.

Julien

 

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