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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - Filling Differential

Having managed to remove the old oil from the differential and purchased some new EP90 Hypoid it struck me as I was about to try to refill the diff that I haven't enough space to do it.

The car is on axle stands at the back and is , therefore, sloping forward so I have plenty of room to get under.

I know its a daft question but without a pump of sorts does anyone have any clever idea/method how this can be easily done and does it matter the car is sloping in terms of oil level?

Cheers for any help. Andy
Andy Davies

The usual plastic gear oil bottles have a pipe in the cap. Lying on your back, stick the pipe in the filler hole and then lift the bottle up so that the oil glugs slowly into the axle. It's messy and tiring, but that's what I did.

If the rear of the car is raised you will overfill the axle slightly. Pour oil in until it starts to come back out. Then let the car down onto its wheels with a drip tray underneath and the oil will drip out until the level is right. Then you can jack it up again to put the plug in.
Mike Howlett

warm the fluid up on a radiator

get a length of fuel hose and seal it into the top of your fluid bottle

stick end of fuel pipe in the diff housing

use the wheel arch area to raise the bottle high enough to empty down the tube and into the axle casing.

PeterJMoore

Be aware that the sleeves of whatever you're wearing will forever after smell faintly of hypoid gear oil, because you'll almost certainly end up with it dripping down your arms. It's not a pleasant job.
Growler

I love the smell of EP90 in the morning. You know, one time I had a whole bottle spill on me, all over. I smelled of it for 12 hours. I walked in the house later, and didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' member of the family would come near me. The smell, you know that hypoid smell, the whole house smelled like that. Smelled like [pondering], diff and gearboxes :). Yeah, someday this spridgets gonna end...
Lawrence Slater

Go to your local cheap market tool stall get a cheap oil can with the trigger on it that pumps the oil out the spowt. Remove the steel spowt attach 6 inch of flexible hose in its place and Roberts your mothers brother. Been using this set up for years and it gets oil in with no spills from any angle.
By the way my better half reckons hypoid smells like cats wee and is not a patch on the smell of burning castrol R !!

ed


Ed H

Nothing like Napalm then eh? :)
Lawrence Slater

Blimey,
Growler, good to hear from you. It's been years since I saw you on the midget & Sprite BBS (sorry to hyjack the thread)
frogeye Gary

Was I the only one into apocalypse now? I thought I was being quite funny, and nobody even noticed. I'm going to cry into my oil can now. LOL.
Lawrence Slater

I smiled when I read it Lawrence. But you need to realise that most people do not share our highly-developed sense of warped humour, their loss :-)
David Smith

Disneyland? F**k, man, this is better than Disneyland!
PeterJMoore

:) Glad I'm not alone then lol.
Lawrence Slater

Lawrence, if you haven't already, watch the redux version.

Almost 50 minutes extra, almost a different film and a very very very good one at that
PeterJMoore

Thanks Peter. I've never heard of that. I'll google it. Cheers. :)
Lawrence Slater

This thread was discussed between 14/07/2012 and 17/07/2012

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