[Mgs] Filling gearbox on an MGB

[Max Heim]

Now that I think of it, I used a funnel and hose from under the hood when I
had a top-filler tranny. Pull the dipstick, but run the hose down past the
back of the engine.

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires

on 7/23/10 3:54 PM, Andrew B. Lundgren at lundgren at byu.net wrote:

>   I'm with Jay on this one.  That is how I did my '70 B.
> 
> On 07/23/2010 01:55 PM, atweditor at aol.com wrote:
>>   Ed,
>> 
>> Congrats on getting the OD fixed. That's huge!
>> 
>> Methinks you're going about the oil filling the wrong way. I've got a '72,
>> but
>> it is just like my old '68 in this regard. The oil filler can be accessed
>> from
>> inside of the car. There's a hole on top of the transmission tunnel behind
>> the
>> radio area, under the dash, reachable from the passenger side of the car.
>> It's
>> not an easy fit for normal hands, but it is doable. You have to pull the
>> carpet out of the way, find the hole, which should be covered by a damn hard
>> rubber plug. Pull that out, and you'll find the loopy end of the dipstick.
>> Pull that out. Now here's where an oil pump comes in handy. You can try a
>> funnel and a hose, but if you slip you end up with a lot of oil inside your
>> cockpit. I got a fairly cheap pump from a standard automotive store that
>> works
>> fine, but slow. Make sure, however, that the hose is going into the dipstick
>> hole and doesn't slip off the side of the tranny or you'll do a great job of
>> oiling the floor of your garage or driveway.
>> 
>> Jay Donoghue
>> 72 MGB-GT
>> 66 Mustang