I use about 15' of the plastic tubing; put one end into the open gear lube bottle,put the bottle on top of the van, draw it through the tube by syphon and stick the end into the transaxle fill hole. Swap out bottles when you need to; to stop the flow, take the bottle off the roof and set it on the ground. Good luck, Tim Mark Drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote: One of the bottle mounted pumps will work with a lot of effort but I use a piece of clear plastic tubing, from HomeDeepo or such. About 6 feet long, a snug fit into the tranny hole. Match the filler plug to the tubing at the store. Then I push a funnel into the end of the hose and route the other end through the wheelwell into the tranny filler hole. My hose is just long enough to let me hang the funnel from the slider door handle. I put a pan under the tranny and start pouring tranny oil into the funnel. It is a slow process since the gear oil does not flow well and that also means you should use the largest tubing diameter that fits into the tranny hole. Mark Bill H. wrote: >Ok, now that I have the hole in the transmission patched and have a >completely empty case, it's time to fill it and get on the road again. >However, unless I start taking off hoses and shifting rods (and maybe not >even then) there doesn't seem any way to get the oil into the filler hole. Is >there some trick to doing that? There's always some trick I didn't know >about. Your help is greatly appreciated as always. > >Bill H. >88 GL > > >
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