Am I missing something here... um... I just buy the gear oil that comes
with a little (plastic, cheap, but reuseable) pump... Works great...
You guys just miss that at the auto-parts store?
Steve Benelisha wrote:
>
> David-
>
> Yes, I also found filling diffs/transmissions very annoying. The
> solution I came up with
> works very well for me and this is an attempt at a description:
>
> I took an old 1 quart camping/backpacking fuel bottle. These are made
> to hold some pressure.
> The cap is hollow and is durable. I drilled two holes in the cap. One
> hole was for a "Schrader" (sp?)
> air valve off a bicycle inner tube. The other hole was for a piece of
> 1/4" copper tubing. The copper
> tubing was cut such that when it was inserted through the cap, the tube
> would extend to the bottom of
> the bottle when the cap is screwed on - kinda like a straw.
>
> I then inserted the valve and tube into the cap and potted the inside
> of the cap with epoxy.
> I clamped the end of a long rubber hose (fuel line) to the end of the
> copper tube.
>
> The way this works is you dump an entire quart of gear lube into the
> bottle. Fit the cap to the
> bottle seeing that the other end of the copper tube goes to the bottom
> of the bottle, Then attach a
> tire inflator (K-mart special) to air valve. Put the other free end of
> the rubber hose in the transmission
> and turn on the inflator. An entire quart of 90W is transferred to the
> transmission in under five minutes
> without spilling a drop. I made this filler about 8 years ago and I'm
> still very happy with it.
>
> Here are a couple of important things not to leave out:
>
> 1. Drill an extra 1/16: hole in the cap to act as a pressure relief.
> I'm not positive
> that this is necessary but I really don't want to find out!
>
> 2. Hold or otherwise restrain the hose near the transmission filler.
> The hose tends to
> whip around a bit when the oil runs out and air starts spitting -
> messy.
>
> Steve
> '74 TR6
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