Whilst under the car today working on the propshaft I decided to do an oil change on the rear diff. I remember doing this from when I built the car and remember I made a mistake at the time.
My mistake was that I fitted the rear subframe and diff dry and then when I came to fill it with oil, it was a bugger to get the plastic bottle of diff oil up high enough to get the oil in the hole. It went everywhere and it is very smelly.
Draining the old oil was not a problem but then I had to set up the following device to be able to get the new oil in.
I used a length of garden hose which I fed through the wire wheel to the filler hole in the diff. I fitted a small funnel to the garden hose and then cable tied this to the door handle to keep it higher than the diff.
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The diff takes 1.5 litres of oil and I had two one litre bottles. Poured the first into the funnel and it went down the hose into the diff. I then poured half of the second bottle into the first so I knew I had exactly ½ a litre and this was then poured into the funnel. Removed the hose and checked with a finger that the oil was just level with the hole and put the filler plug back in. Jobs a gooden as they say and not a single drop of oil spilt.
Whilst under the car today working on the propshaft I decided to do an oil change on the rear diff. I remember doing this from when I built the car and remember I made a mistake at the time.
My mistake was that I fitted the rear subframe and diff dry and then when I came to fill it with oil, it was a bugger to get the plastic bottle of diff oil up high enough to get the oil in the hole. It went everywhere and it is very smelly.
Draining the old oil was not a problem but then I had to set up the following device to be able to get the new oil in.
I used a length of garden hose which I fed through the wire wheel to the filler hole in the diff. I fitted a small funnel to the garden hose and then cable tied this to the door handle to keep it higher than the diff.
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The diff takes 1.5 litres of oil and I had two one litre bottles. Poured the first into the funnel and it went down the hose into the diff. I then poured half of the second bottle into the first so I knew I had exactly ½ a litre and this was then poured into the funnel. Removed the hose and checked with a finger that the oil was just level with the hole and put the filler plug back in. Jobs a gooden as they say and not a single drop of oil spilt.