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TRMark

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Filling through a side plug. A question in the Triumph forum reminded me of this. I am embarrassed to note that I just found this method out a few weeks ago. Drill a hole in the cap install some plastic tubing to the bottom of the container and put a little air pressure in the hole at the top of the container. Works very well.

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Possible answers to my question.

(A) Yes Mark everyone knows about this. You are a moron, it would be best for the safety of others if you sold your tools and your cars and walked.

(B) Gee Whiz, Mark, thank you for sharing this really great idea. I hadn't thought of this either.
 
I gotta go with "B". Thanks.... The extent of my ingenuity is to squeese the plastic bottle... and mop up the mess.
 
Personally, I'm fond of the Sta-Lube pump. Although designed to fit their bottles, it actually fits most generic bottles pretty well. And sometimes it's handy to know how much you've put in.
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Marks method work for getting oil out of the differential also (when there is no drain). Just run a hose down to the bottom of the diff, jam the air nozzle in and seal with a shop rag. The oil will come right out.
 
Man! You country boys an you furriners sure got sum smarts! --elrey
 
One Saturday afternoon 'smits watched me struggle/swear over an old, half-functional plastic pump and came up with a fairly easy solution (and FREE!): A quart-sized "Zip-Lok" plastic bag and the "snoot" cut from an empty plastic bottle of gear lube. Cut the bottle just below the pointy screw on nozzle thingie, put the bottle threaded neck piece inside the baggie at one lower corner, screw the nozzle end on it from the outside. Poke a hole thru the plastic in the opening twixt the two... think cake decoration tool here. :wink:

Fill the "pastry bag" you just made with a known quantity of gear lube, zip up the bag, remove the li'l cap end and squirt it into the filler hole. Repeat as necessary. When done you can dispose of the whole rig, eliminating all the mess of cleanup. Don't be tempted to keep it around as the baggie WILL be degraded by the gear lube.
 
Yeah, thats right, I already knew that. [Nose grows longer.] Good one! --elrey :bow:
 
In sincere gratitude for 'smits very helpful advice, you quit running car parts through the dishwasher when she was out. Right?
 
ssshhhh, Mark!!!! Herself lurks here too often!
 
TRMark said:
In sincere gratitude for 'smits very helpful advice, you quit running car parts through the dishwasher when she was out. Right?
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Running car parts through the dishwasher helps put a nice coating on the pipes, pump and such which prevents food stuffs and other junk from sticking - thus preventing expensive repair bills for said dishwasher! :angel:
 
Great idea, but what I want to know is how many have tried to "put a little air pressure" into the bottle and put in too much. If I tried this I can imagine blowing the top or hose off and now I've got gooey gear lube in my hair, up my nose, and all over the place. I have stuck tubing onto the nozzle of a bottle, turned it upside down and then squeezed the oil in using my manly death grip.

That's what scares me about add tranny oil to an MGB with the fill access inside. That's the last place I want an oil spill.
 
With a B tranny all ya need is a piece of hose and gravity! :wink:
 
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