915 Fill Procedure
 

Dopey questions:

I assume I should just pull the side plug and top up until it overflows out the side?

How do most of you get the oil in the top? Pump it?

I did mine at a local tech inspection. The shop provided a pump that looked kind of like the tube of a grease gun with a hose sticking out of the top. He stuck the tube in the oil container and pulled the handle sucking some up then stuck the tube in the top/side hole of the tranny.
Pushed it in.

I have an oil pump I use for the outdrive on my boat. This works like a bigger version of the pump on a windex bottle. These pumps screw into the top of the plastic quart oil container. It's cheap like $10 at the discount marine store and I think easier to control.

I was lucky I didn't need the big allen wrench for the plug.
I'd check yours before buying one.

Good luck!

while in the car, you could pump it in using a plastic bottle

some do it by setting the oil canister on a ladder, and use a hose to the filler , then suck and gravity does the rest

there's some pics on a thread from couple of months ago
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=157126&highlight=swepco +AND+ladder

Be sure to undo the fill plug before taking out the drain plug! Some have found they could not unscrew the fill and sat around for weeks with a dry trans while they beat at the plug with various weapons....

I have a plastic hand pump that screws in the top of a one gallon jug and has a hose attached, you can buy them at Wally-Mart. I pour in the proper amount of fluid and with the car on jack stands, I pump until the jug is empty. I just changed my tranny fluid and it took about 15 minutes total.

I use the gravity method, but rather than re-write several paragraphs, try the search button. There have been several threads on this and some good info in most of them.

Jerry M
'78 SC

If the proper fill-plug tool isn't immediately available, you can get away by grinding the hex-head of a bolt to fit, and good vise grips close to it to turn.

I have a fluid dispenser for these things that looks like an oversized syringe. About $20 at your favorite tool place. I like thetoolwarehouse.net, it has better quality than harbor freight.

HTH, George