[Spridgets] Back axle oil change made easier

[Weslake1330]

That looks pretty neat - I haven't seen that over here but then again most
petrol stations sell coffee and sandwiches rather than oil!

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 at 02:11, Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Daniel,
> As you know from your book 😃 I have the Watts link that makes it
> torturous to add oil. Over on this side of the pond, Valvoline now sells
> their gear oil in squeezable bag. It’s changed life! It’s a few dollars
> more, but I just reuse the accordion container with oil from the cheaper
> plastic container.
>
> Ron Soave
>
>
> > On Oct 22, 2022, at 3:05 PM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I've never found changing the back axle on my 69 Sprite to be a great
> experience.  Part of what makes it awkward is that I have to fill the oil
> in the axle casing (not having the filler in the diff casing like on
> earlier cars) and I have a Panhard rod fitted.  I like to use Mobil SHC but
> it doesn't come with an extendable squirter type filler nozzle.  I do keep
> an old Castrol one that does and I've even extended it with a length of
> rubber hose.  But it's still awkward to get the bottle in place and to be
> able to give it a squeeze.  I think some years I've even removed a wheel to
> better be able to get the bottle and my hand in.
> >
> > After a bit of fiddling around and swearing earlier, without actually
> getting any oil into the casing, I remembered I have a brand new manually
> operated 'transfer pump' that I bought for a different purpose and never
> used.  It looks a bit like a grease gun only it has a couple of barbed
> fittings at the base which the supplied clear plastic pipe fits onto.  Then
> one pipe goes into the Mobil SHC oil bottle and the other end into the axle
> casing.  After that it's simply a case of gently pulling a rod at the other
> end (like the one on a grease pump for filling it) and the oil is sucked up
> from the bottle and pumped into the axle casing.
> >
> > Yes, the base of the pump did leak a little (not sure why other than I
> was pumping too hard maybe) and yes I did have to put 3/8 bolts in the
> plastic pipe afterwards to stop the oil dripping out and making a smelly
> mess (synthetic gear oil smells as bad as the non-synthetic gear oil), but
> generally using the transfer pump was a quicker and less troublesome way to
> get the job done.  Since my Sprite has a 5 speed that unlike the Sprite
> box, uses gear oil, I won't have to flush out the pump, or pipes etc when I
> come to change the gearbox oil using the transfer pump and my funnel with a
> 4 foot pipe extension on it, can be retired.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > Daniel
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