Get one of those little pumps and transfer the gear oil to an old engine oil container and pump it up into the fill hole...works like a champ!
aaron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 April 2004 14:45 To: Jim Holmgren; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Spitfire Gear Box Oil Are you suggesting removing the shifter lever and pouring the oil into its socket? If you were to do this, the oil would immediately go all over the ground! You should be able to get to the filler plug from below. It's awkward, and you will get your hand filthy, but it's definitely doable. Doug Braun '72 Spit At 11:39 AM 4/11/2004 -0400, Jim Holmgren wrote: >Also - it sounds a whole lot easier to pop the shifter out than to >access the "inaccessium" filler plug by removing the tranny cover (and >carpets and vertical dash support and various inner trim bits). > >Any gotchas or downside to filling from the top? Is there an >over-filling potential? (and would that necessarily be a bad thing?) *** http://www.team.net/the-local *** Your messages not reaching the list? Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html *** unsubscribe/change address requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try *** http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool *** http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo *** Archives at http://www.team.net/archive *** Edit your replies!
