Tranny Filling

Fellow P car aficionados--I have my Swepco on
the way and remembering previous posts about
the difficulties in getting it from the jug
into the tranny--was wondering whether that
might be accomplished ala a pressure device
like the the pressure brake bleeder!? How
about a pump-up plastic 1-2 gallon yard sprayer? I know from the cleaning process for
my home model that when the spray tip is removed the pressure will squirt water 20-30
feet. Do you think it would move anything the consistency of Swepco? I'm going to check out
small sprayers while waiting on the Swepco
delivery. Will let you know.

George 86 911T

You can buy a purpose-made pump at your local auto parts store for probably $10 or less. These are designed to screw onto the opening of the gallon size containers of gear oil.

The normally have little fingers on the tip that will help hold the tube in the tranny. Very helpful!

These make the job pretty easy. You can alos warm up the swepco first (sit in hot water or pop into microwave) to make the pumping a bit easier.

When your finished you can just leave the pump on the gallon as a lid until the next time (you will only use 3 quarts).

You will never get swepco through a garden sprayer. This stuff is really viscous.

Good luck.

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'86 Cab, '77 Targa, Family Truckster

The other alternative is to get an oil suction gun (also less than $10). Unscrew cap. Pull back piston. Pour in fluid. Put cap back on, then push plunger to squirt fluid into transaxle. Is the proper way.
regards,
jlex.

Just set the jug out in the sun for a while. Microwave bad idea.

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Robert Stoll
83 SC
83 944

the microwave thing might be a good thread to start. fun with microwaves. i've heard of drying out fifi after a bath. anything else?

John, I watched a guy put his aluminum foil wrapped lunch in one (even after I warned him). I left the room just in time to see a blinding light come out of that breakroom. I felt like I was at the mountain in Close Encounters.....

I laughed my ass off.

I have a friend who dried his swim shorts in the microwave. When they came out there were holes in the nylon material and no trace of where the material went.

Use one of the pumps from a discount auto parts store thatwill fit on the one gallon jug. Usually less then $5. I tried to make a gravity feed unit my first time, and I spilled half a gallon on my garage floor. It was not pretty. With the piston pump it takes me about 10 minutes to fill my tranny.

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Matt Chamblin
78 911 SC

I have worked on microwave ovens for 20 yrs now. I have seen a few good ones. Like drying the wet newspaper, guess what...it makes a great flame. The best one yet is the egg that blew the door completely off of microwave. Don't try this at home kids.

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Robert Stoll
83 SC
83 944

Speaking of microwaves, I had a friend in high school who wanted to dry out his ganja and couldn't wait to do it naturally. There was a 7-11 on the corner so he put about 1/4 lb. of ganga in a brown paper and headed to 7-11. Needless to say, after a couple of minutes, the brown paper bad and the ganga caught on fire. When the microwave door was opened the entire store was filed with smoke, a little from the paper bag, but mostly from the ganja. It wasthe funniest thing I've ever seen. The 7-11 store keeper running after my friend and all the high school kids running in to get a cheap high.