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Re: Filling a transmission...what kind of container?

To: Bill Saidel <saidel@crab.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: Filling a transmission...what kind of container?
From: mgdave@uswest.net
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:25:30 -0500
Bill,
I went to the parts store and bought a hand pump for maybe $10 and put it on an
old gallon jug and pumped away.  10 min tops.

David Stecher
73 BGT

Bill Saidel wrote:

> OK, I have some rudimentary engineering background and trying to fill the
> tranny of a '76B through the side hole from below is a p***-poor design. I
> guess the electronics wizards designed it.
>
> Anyway, I made a squeeze bottle with a tube, but the problem is 5 pints at
> 1/4th pint per squeeze. That might seem like only 20 squeezes but each
> squeeze event took 5-10 minutes because of the inlet tube. I know, make the
> tube bigger, but then since the squeeze bottle is limited as well, a new
> and different problem arises.
>
> So, does anyone have a really simple design for a device for refilling the
> transmission?
> BTW, I could not find the 'top' port through the floor so I guess that
> might help in some way, but how?
>
> Bill with the tired hands
>
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