[Spridgets] Back axle oil change made easier

[Ron Soave]

The squeeze bag is soooo nice. 

Ron Soave

> On Oct 23, 2022, at 9:17 AM, Rick Fisk <refisk at chartermi.net> wrote:
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> I have a Watts link as well and just use one of these.  Works fine.
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>>> On Oct 23, 2022, at 7:26 AM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> That looks pretty neat - I haven't seen that over here but then again most petrol stations sell coffee and sandwiches rather than oil!  
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>>> 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.  
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>>> Ron Soave
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>>> > On Oct 22, 2022, at 3:05 PM, Weslake1330 via Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>>> > 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
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>>> > 
>>> > Daniel
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