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Why didn't I buy one of these years ago...

http://www.performance-oils.co.uk/acata ... nsers.html

"General purpose fluid dispenser" - 9.99GBP, 15 Quid with Tax & delivery. Worth every penny - easy to control the flow into the gearbox filler hole, with almost no mess. I'm sure everybody else has already got one, but why did nobody tell me earlier?!

Jeremy

Till I scrolled down I thought you were talking about the rotary barrel pump. 27L /min - that would fill the gearbox pretty quickly. A little difficult to get under the car though

Thanks Jeremy, I've just ordered one as well. This will hopefully mean an end to getting hypoid gear oil everywhere except in the gearbox! I can usually smell that foul stuff for weeks after each service!

Kevin

I've got a plastic pump/hose/nozzle combo that threads into the standard gear oil bottles we get over here. It came with a two bottle purchase, and is one of the handiest freebies I've ever used.

Check around and see if anyone is running a similar promotion, though it's been ages since I got mine.

Anyone on the forum know who might carry these in the US?

Jerry

I am about to do this job and was thinking about getting one of these from Harbor Freight.

http://www.harborfreight.com/fluid-siph ... 93290.html

Dan

Why don't you just remove the shift lever and pour the oil in there. If you wish, you can remove the side level plug and stop adding oil when it reaches that level. I've done this to fill my Elans for years. Also works on my '86 Toyota AE86 GTS coupe. If filling from empty, you can simply add the amount the shop manual says is the capacity.

Roger

Oh, I should mention, this won't work on a Mk1 Cortina with the shifter extension, but it would if the whole shifter extension is removed. Roger

collins_dan wrote:I am about to do this job and was thinking about getting one of these from Harbor Freight.

http://www.harborfreight.com/fluid-siph ... 93290.html

Dan

I have one of those. Never could get mine to work worth a dam.

YMMV

The other options I was considering are:

http://www.harborfreight.com/multi-use- ... 66418.html

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/st ... sNum=11109

What was the problem with getting the siphon pump to work?

Dan

collins_dan wrote:The other options I was considering are:

http://www.harborfreight.com/multi-use- ... 66418.html

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/st ... sNum=11109

What was the problem with getting the siphon pump to work?

Dan

The pumps from West Marine are like mine, except that mine has a 24" hose attached to the "faucet" spout. And the intake hose is sized to fit a standard gear oil container.

The siphon pump would always have a lot of backwash (probably cheap-o valve) and always break suction. Didn't seem to matter what viscosity fluid I was pumping, it would neither pump efficiently nor allow any extended siphoning.

I would go for either of the two pumps you just posted rather than try another siphon pump.

We did this a while back here:
elan-f15/filling-the-tranny-t20729.html

there are a couple of suggestions there

regards
Mark

SOME YEARS AGO WE SHARED A GARAGE -THERE WERE 4 OF US ---one of the guys discovered that if you emptied a fire extinguisher-added hypoid and charged the bottle with air you could fill a tranny right quick -----we all lived in fear of fire in the shop for many years after ----ed