hello - first time poster here so go easy please!
I am changing the gearbox oil on a 1.0L k11 micra from 2002. I couldn't see a 1/2" square drain plug anywhere as described in everything I've read to date, so I set about removing what I thought could be a cover for the drain plug. It was secured by a single phillips head screw and looks like an oval plate. It turned out not to be a plate and acted as a drain quite effectively!
The visible plate is one end of a spring loaded cylindrical assembly, which came out along with a ball bearing. It is about 2 inches long with a rectangular plate at the top (i.e inside the gearbox), the plate has a groove down one side which I think the ball bearing runs in. Any idea how this should go back? or what it is!?
before I get slated for not being able to see the square holed drain plug - I don't have a square holed drain or fill plug! They are both hex sockets, I don't know if that could tell you anything.
Many thanks for any ideas!
I am changing the gearbox oil on a 1.0L k11 micra from 2002. I couldn't see a 1/2" square drain plug anywhere as described in everything I've read to date, so I set about removing what I thought could be a cover for the drain plug. It was secured by a single phillips head screw and looks like an oval plate. It turned out not to be a plate and acted as a drain quite effectively!
The visible plate is one end of a spring loaded cylindrical assembly, which came out along with a ball bearing. It is about 2 inches long with a rectangular plate at the top (i.e inside the gearbox), the plate has a groove down one side which I think the ball bearing runs in. Any idea how this should go back? or what it is!?
before I get slated for not being able to see the square holed drain plug - I don't have a square holed drain or fill plug! They are both hex sockets, I don't know if that could tell you anything.
Many thanks for any ideas!
