Front Diff fill method?

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phoenix1055

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Ok..

How have you guys done it?

Because of the hole location I had to use a freakin turkey baster to get the fluid in the fill hole.

I'd like to know other methods if you got em so I don't look so dumb out there in my driveway next time.

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I too use a hand pump, cheap and easy, head to your local farm and feed store, they should have them on hand and cheaper than the parts store sometimes.
 
I buy gear oil by the 5 gallon bucket and use something like this.

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Take off the skid plate:

I simply take a little bit out of the quart, cut the tip on an angle, plug the hole with your finger and smash the quart up in there upside down and fill....has worked great for me on all my cruisers.

the quart rolls up like a thing of tooth paste...un roll it and fill from a new bottle and do it again if needed.
 
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5 & 30 gallon bucket pumps :D

They are actually pretty cheap, and you would be surprised how quick a DIY'er can use up 5 gallons (a couple of Cruiser fluid swaps)
 
make life easier by warming the fluid first....it flows much moe quickly that way...this is if you are using 1 qt. bottles or 4 qt. jugs.
This helps up here in cold ol Canada .
Daryl
 
Razor said:
Take off the skid plate:

I simply take a little bit out of the quart, cut the tip on an angle, plug the hole with your finger and smash the quart up in there upside down and fill....has worked great for me on all my cruisers.

the quart rolls up like a thing of tooth paste...un roll it and fill from a new bottle and do it again if needed.
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no skid plate on front axle...are you thinking of trans and t case? :confused:

i do the five gallon bucket with hand pump from crapfreight
 
There are so many kind of flexible hand pump that you can use any of them with any kind of container.
 
if you have an assistant, the easiest way is to run a length of tube up from the diff to a higher point. Stick a funnel in the tube and the tube in the diff.
Now you can stand their easily and pour fluid in from whatever container you want.
The assistant is useful so that one person can keep the tube *in* the diff fill hole instead of puking oil all over the floor.
Keep in mind that you need to predict when the diff is full or plan to pull the tube out and plug it with your finger or something.
 
I agree w/ sandcruiser and fjbj40. I combined what they did and it worked great. I had a gallon bottle of 90w and put it in a large pot of water on the stove and heated it up till it was about 160 degrees. It is pretty thin then. Then the assistant holding the plastic hose part works great. Also, keep the oil pan under the diff. while doing this. It keeps spill-over oil off the floor.

Blue 60
 
To tell you the truth.. that is exactly the way I tried it first.. but had no assistant..

After the tube fell out of the diff hole a few times and I couldn't force gravity to move the thick fluid thru some of the turns..... I laid on the oil in the driveway and moved to plan B

The old Turkey baster trick

I'll be buying myself a hand pump next time
 
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