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Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: Robbo on August 22, 2006, 14:41:50

Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: Robbo on August 22, 2006, 14:41:50: How does one put oil in the box? the hole seems a little difficult to reach!

Cheers

Robbo
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: Devon-Rover on August 22, 2006, 15:19:35: Either by use of a small squeze bottle. Or by removing the middle seats and the access panel and then put a hose into the level hole. and fill it using the hose.
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: rustprooflandyracer on August 22, 2006, 17:20:59: I used an oil sucker, just sucked it out of the bottle and straight into the box, nice and easy. :D
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: Robbo on August 22, 2006, 19:22:22: whats an oil sucker? sounds good! :lol:
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: POTASH on August 22, 2006, 21:25:22: its like a big bycycle pump, mine is anyway :lol:
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: hobbit on August 23, 2006, 09:00:24: Just remember if you go through the top of the gearbox to fill it up, you must remove the level plug on the side of the box before you start, you could fill to a pre measured level, but is safer to use the level plug hole as reference
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: Robbo on August 25, 2006, 22:51:49: Quote from: "POTASH"
its like a big bycycle pump, mine is anyway :lol:

...I got one! now I've found I can squirt EP90 almost everywhere, even those hard parts of the driveway that I couldn't quite reach before.....
Title: oil sucker
Post by: ukmudmaster on September 22, 2006, 00:43:57: where did you get it from, and, is that its proper name!!!!
Dave
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: ian_s on September 22, 2006, 08:16:51: i've found a good cheap solution

get one of those small bottles of mineral water, with those squirty caps. the ones where you just pull it up to open it
get a 2 litre lemonade bottle.
find a length of pipe that fits over the squirty top

fill the large bottle with ep90
attach the squirty lid
put the hose over the squirty top, pull the top up to open it and squeeze the bottle!

its also a good idea to put the hose in where you want the oil to go, or it will go everywhere!

Ian
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: Lucy1978 on September 22, 2006, 13:15:16: I use an old dry powder fire extinguisher, cleaned out, and filled with oil, it has a (schrader?) valve on the side with which I use a bike pump to preassurise it, it's got a good length od hose on it, squeeze the handles and out comes the oil, just make sure you paint it and keep it where it won't be confused with a fire extinguisher in an emergency.
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: TechnoTurkey on September 22, 2006, 13:21:14: Yeah, squiring EP90 onto a raging fire wouldnt really help to put it out!

I use a litre sized syringe iwht a bit of pipe on the end.
Title: Re: oil sucker
Post by: Robbo on September 22, 2006, 14:38:17: Quote from: "ukmudmaster"
where did you get it from, and, is that its proper name!!!!
Dave

yep its really called an oil sucker!
got mine from machine mart about Ã‚Â£6.50 or someit like that...
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: andyb on September 22, 2006, 19:04:02: Quote from: "climbingchris"
I use an old dry powder fire extinguisher, cleaned out, and filled with oil, it has a (schrader?) valve on the side with which I use a bike pump to preassurise it

I do a similar thing with a plant sprayer. Cut off nozzle and add a length of hose. EP90 rots the seals so you have to replace every few years.....about 4 years of life in my last one :)

HTH
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: blackbob on September 22, 2006, 20:09:48: try this on ebay Item number: 180030985936
Title: Oil Maingearbox
Post by: tomarse on September 22, 2006, 20:30:12: Quote from: "blackbob"
try this on ebay Item number: 180030985936

you could pay Ã‚Â£25+postage on ebay or Ã‚Â£7.04 from machinemart for the exact same item!

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