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JPSmit

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I know you can top up a 1275 tranny from the top - can you do the same with a 1500? (I tried and just seemed to spill oil) If so, how?

thanks all

also, can I check the oil level from above?
 
The way I fill my gear box is I crawl under the car to remove the fill plug. I stick a very long tube into the fill hole. I then run the tube up into the engine compartment and push it onto the conical end of the gear oil bottle. When I am making a great big mess all over the driveway, I know the gear box is full. I button her up, throw some kitty litter on the driveway, and go.

When the smell of gear oil burning on my exhaust pipe seems like it is getting less, I know it's time to top her up again.
 
I do it the same as a Morris. :laugh:

By the way, the fill plug is on the passenger side (US cars) and in mine, I can remove the fill plug from the top by reaching down under the battery tray.

You might want to warm the oil by putting the oil bottle in an old pot filled with hot water....it'll run down the filler tube easier if the oil is warm.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]By the way, the fill plug is on the passenger side (US cars) and in mine, I can remove the fill plug from the top by reaching down under the battery tray.[/QUOTE]

You got longer arms than I. :wink:
 
Would the 1500 Midget not use the same gearbox as the 1500 Spitfire... or did the Midget keep its own gearbox when the engine changed? If it's the Triumph gearbox, the only way to fill it is from the filler plug on the side of the gearbox.
 
I work it the same as Morris too; the only exception being I use one of the gear oil bottles with the push-pump built into the nozzle. Then I can thread the tube in from under the car while I'm wedged in, and keep an eye on the hole as I fill it. That minimizes the number of times I have to "get out and get under," and I use less kitty litter that way :smile: Works on the diff too.

The pump bottles are a little more expensive...but you only have to buy it once.
 
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