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Originally Posted by cicsprog
Just a follow up. 10mm is the right hex head for G50. Make sure you buy one of the inexpensive pumps to get the gear fluid from the container into the transmission - not sure there is another way if you don't. Very messy job but doable.
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Not a messy job at all.
Go to Sears or Walmart etc. Buy one of those long (18"or so), narrow funnels. It will have a nail hole tab on the upper lip. Connect about 10 or 12 feet of clear vinyl tubing (5/8" i think) to the end of the funnel using a hose clamp to secure the two together. Now hang the funnel on a small nail located about 5 foot above the garage floor. Then string the vinyl tubing down and thru the left rear suspension directing the end toward the fill plug positioned on the side of the gear box. Fashion a bend into a 1/2 inch piece of copper tubing. Then insert this nozzle into the open end of the vinyl tubing. Secure copper nozzle with another hose clamp. The crook in the nozzle will hook into the fill port. Make the copper nozzle about 6 or 7 inches long. You may want to cut the nozzle in half along the straight portion to create a tube stiffener. Then force this straight stiffener into the open end of the tubing about 2 inches deeper than the tube end. Then force the remaining straight end of the crooked nozzle into the open 2 inches, where it will butt up against the inserted straight stiffener piece. This will result in a flexible joint which will help retain a clear pathway for the oil to enter the fill port. Without the stiffener, the vinyl tubing has a tendency to kink, closing off flow of the oil before it exits the nozzle and into the fill port. To fill, carefully pour transmission fluid into the funnel hanging on the wall. Gravity will do the rest. A 3.2 liter G50 Carrera holds 4 liters or almost 1 gallon. Simple, fun DIY project.