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Re: New Idea (?) for Topping up the Diff & Gearbox

To: dmbrock@julian.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: New Idea (?) for Topping up the Diff & Gearbox
From: Steve Benelisha <steveb@verity.com>
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 15:23:25 -0700
Cc: Triumph List <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Organization: Verity Inc.
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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