Changing the Transferbox oil

[Captain Ducman]

Ok,

I am most of the way through the 60k mile service and was wondering if anyone had done this and had some "been there done that" advise. My truck is on the lift, we've completed the plugs/wires, the engine flush, oil and filter change, front and rear difs, when my helper had to go back to work. I am supposed to go back to the shop in a couple of hours to help complete the servicing.

Thanks in advance,
Steve

[scottagnew101]

go to walmart and buy a hudson sprayer (or the generic one). Walmart has one for $8-9, its 1 gallon. Cut the end off (the very tip where it would spray the mist) and then use it to spray in the gear oil (clean and neat). It will work trust me. Also you can attach 1/4" copper tubing to the end and manipulate it to work best for you.

PS - the walmart one has a lockable "trigger" so you can set it and walk away.



EDIT: This is also really good for the Differentials, and the Transmission! Yes gear oil, even up to 85w140, it will flow through, but at a trickle... But its cleaner and easier then anything else.

[ultrrunr]

Being the cheap frugal joker that my siblings always accuse me of being (....now is it me that drives the LR and they drive what? Well, sorry I digress....)

I simply drilled a hole in the top side of the bottle of gear oil smaller than a piece of tubing I had handy. Pushed to the bottom of the bottle and ran it under the truck with me to the fill hole. Called the 6 year old over and said, "Honey, this is how you will teach your husband to take care of your Rover when you are older." I then snipped the pointed cap off just enough to slide another tubing over the tip. The other end was attached to my bicycle pump (not the air compressor as I was employing the help of my 6 year old). "Ok, honey start pumping and watch the bottle get bigger and push the gear oil up the tubing." When it was empty, I simply poured fluid into that bottle and repeated to fill the transfer gearbox to the appropriate level. Cheap and quick!

"Good job honey. Now you can go play tackle football with the boys."

[Jupiter Rover]

Originally Posted by ultrrunr

Being the cheap frugal joker that my siblings always accuse me of being (....now is it me that drives the LR and they drive what? Well, sorry I digress....)

I simply drilled a hole in the top side of the bottle of gear oil smaller than a piece of tubing I had handy. Pushed to the bottom of the bottle and ran it under the truck with me to the fill hole. Called the 6 year old over and said, "Honey, this is how you will teach your husband to take care of your Rover when you are older." I then snipped the pointed cap off just enough to slide another tubing over the tip. The other end was attached to my bicycle pump (not the air compressor as I was employing the help of my 6 year old). "Ok, honey start pumping and watch the bottle get bigger and push the gear oil up the tubing." When it was empty, I simply poured fluid into that bottle and repeated to fill the transfer gearbox to the appropriate level. Cheap and quick!

"Good job honey. Now you can go play tackle football with the boys."

your Sh*ting me.. lmao

[scottagnew101]

the only thing i see with that, is it seems like it would be a pain in the ass having to pump all that time, just give the hudson sprayer about 10-15 pumps and it will just about get all of the gear oil out

But hey, you get major points for being creative. I was thinking about something like that, but just figured thers no way that the pressure could stay, it would surly leak out.

Scott

[ArmyRover]

I like the sprayer idea. It's alot better I'm sure than the cheap gear oil pump I have. It's one of those that screws onto the gear oil bottle and pumps it out like hand soap.

[tee51397]

Originally Posted by scottagnew101

go to walmart and buy a hudson sprayer

Thanks, I feel better about myself now. I did the same thing (Lowes- Spectracide one) Worked great, could measure the exact amount pour it in and be done. Felt bad for jerry-rigging but hey, it works and is fundamentally the same thing as a professional one.

Sadly, I didn't think of it till I had about 1/2 quart of gear oil running down my arm.

Thanks for the copper tubing idea, I zip tied polyflow to a coat hanger. I'll def go with the copper next time around.

ultrrunr,
Very creative. I'm mad impressed.


Now we just need to figure a way to replace the pump with a shop-vac connector for a Hudson oil extractor.

[scottagnew101]

Originally Posted by tee51397

Now we just need to figure a way to replace the pump with a shop-vac connector for a Hudson oil extractor.

... But true

Scott