While I was waiting for the gear oil to slowly drip out of my roadster's rear end, I got to thinking what a pain in the *** it was the last time I did this. It took me forever to fill it using a squeeze bottle. Now don't tell me I should buy a pressure pot to do this job. These parts cost less that a $1 at the local hardware store. One 90 degree elbow 1/2" npt, One 3/4" to 1/2" npt reducer and one 1/2" npt threaded pipe to connect the other two pieces. Screw it into the servicing bung on the banjo and slowly pour the new gear oil in. Worked great. I'm working on a similar set-up for refilling my T5.
Low tech works for me. That's the sort of thing you won't find in a manual, but you sure wish somebody would have told you before you spent all afternoon dripping oil on your garage floor. Did you know you can fill your T5 through the top? Unbolt the shifter (4 bolts) and just pour the gear oil in. It'll drain down into the gearbox. I didn't find that out until AFTER I'd spilled a couple of funnels full of oil inside the truck cab. Mol***es in January has nothing on gear oil. It drains S-L-O-W.
Thanks to both 81ttopcoupe and ctpstickfiigure for the tip on filling the T5. I like that better than what I was planning. Great idea.
In cases where I couldn't get easy access to pour fluids in, I've slipped a hose over the spout of a gear oil bottle, stuck the hose in the approriate filling hole, punched a small hole in the bottom of the bottle, turned it over and used an air gun with a rubber to to pressurize the bottle. Works for me and it beats spilling oil everywhere.
Most of the rears I try to fill have no room to get a quart bottle into position to pour. Made a pressure pot from an obsolete style barbecue propane tank. Just be sure to vent all the remaining gas and then wash thouroughly with warm soap and water before welding on bungs! Now all I have to do is pressurize it to around 10#, get in position and open the nozzle at the end of the hose. Simple and no mess.
That's a cool idea. I have an old 1 gallon gear oil container that came with a little pump on the top (like a lotion bottle) and the spout has tangs on it so it stays in the fill hole. I've had it for years and can't remember where I got it, I just keep refilling it with fresh oil. It's low-tech too but pretty handy.
I have not ***embled my `32 rearend yet ( after swapping gears ) , so I have planned to drill & tap a new hole on top of the banjo housing ( with accsess from the trunk ) Belive it will make a oil-change less "painfull" .. Klaz
After I had a mol***es event, I switched to synthetic (redline brand). What a difference in the 5 spd - no more stiff shifting in the morning or when first driving the car. Did the same for the rear diff and picked up a mpg or 2.
they still make them, you can get them at pep boys, kragen.......they're cheap and you only have to have room for the barbed part. i have a few some that i extended the hose on........but if you have room for a qt bottle that's a great lowbuck tech.
Remember those old oil squirt cans? Stick a piece of vacuum hose on the end and go. Slow, but it works, and might be quicker/easier than dis***embling the interior. I've done it to fill the T-5 in my Mustang.
It's a lot easier for me to use the shifter hole method of filling the transmission. All I have to do is roll the floor mat out of the way.
Hey Ron. Yeah, my T5 used Dextron III. It's still a pain getting that into the trans as my E-brake is one inch away from the fill plug. Pulling the shifter off and pouring it in until it starts to drip out of the fill hole will be easier. The rear end refill is easier now. See you a week from Saturday in Greenfield.
Wasn't one of your rules, never p*** up the opportunity to be an ***hole? Searched Dextron in GOOGLE they replied: Did you mean: dexron See you at the Bones on the 18th, Ron
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