Where do i put gear oil in a 1996 ford contour? I can't get the gears to shift now after parking the car.?

I own a 1996 Ford Contour it's a 5 speed V-6. After parking the car now I can't get it into reverse or any other gear without forcing it. It sounds as if something is dry. I want to add gear oil to try to fix this problem but don't know how or where. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.


Thanks!Where do i put gear oil in a 1996 ford contour? I can't get the gears to shift now after parking the car.?
I believe it's going to be that your clutch slave cylinder is going to be out of fluid, it's mounted on the fire wall next to your brake master cylinder, just unscrew the round black lid and fill it up with Dot3 brake fluid. Then pump your clutch a few times and you should be ready to go. If you wont to check the oil level in your transmission , you should be able to see a plug on the side of the transmission, it;s the top plug , the bottom plug is to drain it with . just unscrew the top plug and if oil doesn't run out when you unscrew the plug just stick your finger into the hold you should be able to fill oil ,if not you will need to add so gear oil to the transmission, usually a 80/90 w gear oil is what you would use.it comes in a plastic bottle,so you can cut the tip off to put the oil into the hole,Where do i put gear oil in a 1996 ford contour? I can't get the gears to shift now after parking the car.?
it may be low on clutch master cylinder fluid due to a leak at master , line or slave cylinder, that is what releases clutch to allow you to shift gears, the resivoir is on driverside next to brake master cylinder it uses dot3 brake fluid, but if it was low you have a leak and will need to bleed system, some times you can just pump pedal and get it to shift, but you will have to pump every time you try to shift, like when u have air in brake system, start by checking fluid level
first off, i have not seen a contour yet that had a manual transmission, so with that adding gear oil would only make the solution allot more expensive. but if you are really driving a contour with a stick, then you should be able to find a filler tube according to wiki answers. i attached the link so that you could read through it. at the same time a low fluid level in the trans would not give you this problem. how ever a failing or out of adjustment slave cylinder/ clutch linkage would give you this problem.


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_cha鈥?/a>
On the transmission on the bottom there is big drain plug and right above that about the middle of the gearbox there is the fill plug.





Pull the fill plug and you cant overfill it and pour in gl 4 gear oil to the top of the hole or until it starts running out, so don't worry you cant overfill it.
Has the car stood for a while? if so it seems that the clutch plate is stuck, press clutch pedal to floor, switch off engine, select 4th or 5th gear, switch on and try to start engine (make sure the brakes are on) keep trying until engine starts..
If you can't get it in gear it's because the clutch will not engage meaning that first you should check to see if you are leaking fluid from the clutch. If that's not the case then it is probably worn out and needs to be replaced.
You add gear oil at the rear of the axle where the yolk is. this will not help your case it sounds like you need transmission fluid along with some master cylinder fluid. You put the transmission fluid in where it says trans. fluid dipstick.

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