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[cbs2]

Took the mig to the folks house over the weekend near inverness
Took the new front & rear discs & pads, gear box oil, filters & gaskets to borrow their garage( big enough to get the mig in with about a metre either side - bliss)
I ended up assisting my dad as he tore into the brakes with gusto. rear calipers are furb'd, so the fronts got changed & the gearbox oil & filter was changed.

During the day the mig was turned round on the driveway to back it into the garage. As I nosed it into the corner of the drive to spin it round, I didn't notice the 6-8 inch high post that secures the gate open. it went into the wheel arch on full lock, when opposite lock was on, the funny noise came from this.

Oops

It looked shocking, but to be fair to the car, it mostly clipped back together again, with a bit of new metalwork from my dad.

I need to share the great idea my dad had for filling the gearbox oil. An old brake fluid changer was used. it has a filler bottle, with an outlet pipe & a tyre adaptor. it uses the tyre pressure to blow 1/2 a litre of oil in in a few minutes. great bit of kit.
handy hints courtesy of brs2

[miggy]

Sorry to see the miggy with a bad nose.........as long as it went together ok.

[TheBoy]

Seen an easibleed used to fill autobox before. Trouble is, you have to keep refilling bottle.

[cbs2]

thats true. the bottle only held 1/2 a litre, only good thing is the speed it pumps it.

[Jukeboxnut]

I have an easibleed and have often thought that it could be modified to fill the gearbox.

With a larger container though you would need to reduce the pressure somewhat to prevent a very messy dexron explosion or use a thick walled container.

At work we use very thick walled glass containers (Winchester quarts)for storing Methanol which apparently cannot be recycled.

I can feel a project coming on to modify one for an autobox oil change when the weather improves.

[Martin_1962]

I have an easibleed and have often thought that it could be modified to fill the gearbox.

With a larger container though you would need to reduce the pressure somewhat to prevent a very messy dexron explosion or use a thick walled container.

At work we use very thick walled glass containers (Winchester quarts)for storing Methanol which apparently cannot be recycled.

I can feel a project coming on to modify one for an autobox oil change when the weather improves.

IT can be reused in some car engines!!

[Kevin Wood]

I can testify that an easibleed makes light work of filling gearboxes. Although a killaspray fits a lot more fluid in, and there were some nice ones going cheap at the local Aldi / Lidl recently.  

Just need to put a schrader valve in mine for the compressor so I don't even have to pump it up.

Kevin