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RE: Desired product for filling Diffs and Trannys

To: "'Michael D. Porter'" <mporter@zianet.com>, Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
Subject: RE: Desired product for filling Diffs and Trannys
From: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 17:02:08 -0400
Cc: "'Scott Tilton'" <sdtilton@yahoo.com>, triumphs@autox.team.net
I gather that with the amount of leakage they were expecting to see, they
knew that another hole in the differential would be superfluous. ;^)

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael D. Porter [mailto:mporter@zianet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:52 PM
To: Mark Hooper
Cc: 'Scott Tilton'; triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Desired product for filling Diffs and Trannys


Mark Hooper wrote:
> 
> That's how you do it with boats. You pump it from the bottom until the
fluid
> appears at the level hole. Then you insert the plug at the top. This
creates
> an air lock that allows the bottom pipe to be withdrawn without the oil
> flooding out. Then you insert the bottom drain plug. Very tidy if done
> right.
> 
> I don't know if there is too much air in the transmission to create an air
> lock, but it's worth a try.

Also, it's a bit of a problem with some Triumph differentials... no
drain plug.

Cheers.

-- 
Michael D. Porter
Roswell, NM (yes, _that_ Roswell)
[mailto:mporter@zianet.com]

The gulf between content and substance continues to widen....

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