ronemca
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I did a tranny & rear diff transfusion a cuppla weeks ago and it was super-awkward and troublesome to refill both housings. I know - I know - there are a zillion posts online that suggest one or some of the following:
* warm up the new fluid first
* use a funnel and gravity
* large syringe
* valved twin-hose pump from HFT or similar
* single-piston pump (like Wendy's ketchup)
* short hose + original bottle + gorilla hand strength
And probably more. But I don't like or want to do any of those, because they all suck.
I bough the twin-hose HFT valved pump, and it was GARBAGE. It was so lame it wouldn't even pull the fluid into the cylinder - much less pump it up/out of the discharge hose (returned it)
And there's no way a single-piston ketchup pump will pull diff fluid out of the bottle AND straight up into the diff hole. Tranny fluid maybe, but the other? No way.
I ended up doing the bottle + grip of death thing on the rear diff. And I got it done, but it was messy and awkward. And for 90% of the time, I was saying:
Okay - this is the end for this circus. I'm gonna get a proper device. And it's not gonna cost ten bucks, because it will "work" like a ten-dollar pump. Nope.
So off I went to search online. And guess what? There are a zillion mentions of those cheezy, useless, frustrating items that I listed above (that cost anywhere from nothing to ten bucks) and there are one or two mentions of a machine that would make the owner of a Mercedes dealership hesitate. AND NOTHING IN BETWEEN!!
So I thought - hey! - I'm gonna ask my pals @ M6g for some ideas!
So, gents...what's out there that makes this messy job easier and more efficient? One thing I'd like to see is a rigid plastic or alum tube that has an elbow at the top...with a short piece jutting out at an angle - like 75° or 80°. I've seen a couple of things like that, but it' surprisingly hard to find something that'll work well (and last beyond a single fluid change) Please.
* warm up the new fluid first
* use a funnel and gravity
* large syringe
* valved twin-hose pump from HFT or similar
* single-piston pump (like Wendy's ketchup)
* short hose + original bottle + gorilla hand strength
And probably more. But I don't like or want to do any of those, because they all suck.
I bough the twin-hose HFT valved pump, and it was GARBAGE. It was so lame it wouldn't even pull the fluid into the cylinder - much less pump it up/out of the discharge hose (returned it)
And there's no way a single-piston ketchup pump will pull diff fluid out of the bottle AND straight up into the diff hole. Tranny fluid maybe, but the other? No way.
I ended up doing the bottle + grip of death thing on the rear diff. And I got it done, but it was messy and awkward. And for 90% of the time, I was saying:
Okay - this is the end for this circus. I'm gonna get a proper device. And it's not gonna cost ten bucks, because it will "work" like a ten-dollar pump. Nope.
So off I went to search online. And guess what? There are a zillion mentions of those cheezy, useless, frustrating items that I listed above (that cost anywhere from nothing to ten bucks) and there are one or two mentions of a machine that would make the owner of a Mercedes dealership hesitate. AND NOTHING IN BETWEEN!!
So I thought - hey! - I'm gonna ask my pals @ M6g for some ideas!
So, gents...what's out there that makes this messy job easier and more efficient? One thing I'd like to see is a rigid plastic or alum tube that has an elbow at the top...with a short piece jutting out at an angle - like 75° or 80°. I've seen a couple of things like that, but it' surprisingly hard to find something that'll work well (and last beyond a single fluid change) Please.
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