Gearbox filler funnel
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Gearbox filler funnel
What do people use to fill the gearbox with oil?
I was struggling to get a funnel long enough and most of the plastic orange juice bottles or the like were too wide at the neck. I am not keen to pay a £5 for a proper funnel.
Any suggestions gratefully accepted?
Mean Scotsman
I was struggling to get a funnel long enough and most of the plastic orange juice bottles or the like were too wide at the neck. I am not keen to pay a £5 for a proper funnel.
Any suggestions gratefully accepted?
Mean Scotsman
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Gearbox filler funnel
For a couple of quid more you can buy the proper tool for the job from machine martI am not keen to pay a £5 for a proper funnel.
I bought mine a few years ago and it's sooo easy to use
Mal
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Gearbox filler funnel
Ah you're back then BillYou paid for it Mal
Tis only the majority of shows I refuse to pay to enter I'm always buying tools and must admit this one makes life very easy
Yes.. they do like it up-emooo errr nurse is that for me
Mal
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Me too. I have about 10 of them spare* so if anyone wants one, let me know. The big advantage over a funnel is that they stop filling when you stop squeezing - avoiding most of the mess!i use an empty transmission oil bottle . i fill it with 20.50 then fill the gearbox.
* I didn't buy them - they were empties rescued from the bin at work. I'm too tight to buy oil by the litre, it's cheaper by the gallon!
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Oct 06: back from Dresden with my Trabant 601 Kombi
Jan 07: back from a month thru North Africa (via Timbuktu) in a S3 Landy
June 07 - back from Zwickau Trabi Treffen
Aug 07 & Aug 08 - back from the Lands End to Orkney in 71 pickup
Sept 2010 - finally gave up breaking down in a SII Landy...
where to break down next?
2013... managed to seize my 1275 just by driving it round the block
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Gearbox filler funnel
The only advantage with the proper tool that I bought is that it sucks the oil from the gallon can and then just squeeze it in the gearbox.. and repeat.. dead easy and worth every penny
Mal
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joking apart I'm going to get one next time I see one for sale. I hate the rear axle one because you cant see when it is nearly full. So the facility to suck a bit out before it makes a mess would be good.
This message board is like a family - you can't choose the other members!! But remember engine oil is thicker than water.
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Gearbox filler funnel
Good investment RogerI'm going to get one next time I see one for sale
Mal