Interesting read on gear oil

The it is worth the bit of extra garage time. Hell, the beer and tunes just make it a good day, esp as you are not wrench to keep it running. That put a serious dent in my motivation a few years back. Stayin' Japanese.


It definitely does that. Redline FTW.

 

I added a Velvet stem to on old weed sprayer. Drilled an undersized hole and epoxied it in. Worked good but wasn't worth the extra Hassel at the end of the day. I'm surprised I didn't blow that sprayer up. I was a lot dumber back then

 

It would probably hold all that a compressor would throw at it with either the relief valve or hose failing first.

Not knowing anything about smoke systems, we tried to make a wand for a wind tunnel by heating dry ice in a pressure cooker. Removed the relief valve and JB Welded in a bunch of different size tubes with valves. That thing luckily took all that the hot plate would sink into it.

If we were actually smart (and if google was a thing), we would have found that cooking coolant would have done the trick and made a safer device.

 

You're right! I forgot about the relief valve. I fee like a couple of bumps With the compressor and the relief valve Would pop.

Dry ice in a pressure cooker sounds terrifying lol

 

Oh yeah. It probably wouldn't have taken much of one to pop.



You know, we never thought once about the danger until it was chalked up as a fail. Friggin' aluminum with no valve. Fuuuucckk. Probably ten tries (min?) to get visible flow.

 

Wait are you really saying - Trust the government...lol

 

in God we trust all others must pay cash

 

Hahahahah that's so ridiculous

 

Telling you. It was a good time though.

 

I use my outboard motor's lower unit's cheap hand pump to change the gear oil in my trucks differentials and transfer case...the pump just screws onto the qt. jugs the gear oil comes in. Really works well.

 

I'm not 100% sure what you are talking about since I never had an outboard (or inboard), but this is what I used on the first go:

$10 Plews 55001 Lubrimatic Fluid Quart Pump, Fits Standard Quart Bottles

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BQW5LK

It took a while, esp the rear diff, but worked. For $20, the sprayer would make speed and storage good for me.

 

I splurged and bought the

$93 motive 1735 power fill pro fluid transfer pump 1 GAL tank with schraeder valve, ball valve shutoff, and hose, 4 quart capacity

motive 1735 power fill transfer pump. Makes the diffs and transfer changes so quick and easy.

 

I (I'm not the OP here) just did this here last week.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...-on-2020-with-575-miles.684590/#post-24140684

 

I was think of your milk jug pic when I posted above.

 

There's nothing wrong with a good splurge here or there.

 

Very interest pics thanks. When are you gonna change it next? I expect you’ll find that same sludge at 1500 miles. And 15,000 miles. But maybe not with the Mobile 1. I couldn’t tell with the oil in the jug, how did it look compared to new?

ive been looking at some of the posts at Bob the Oil Guy forum, interesting! I may have to drop my first diff oil change down to 10-15k miles after a good break in. And then every 100k after that

 

So here's a cheap setup for the manual transmission. You need a few feet of 3/8"I.D. clear vinyl tubing and an old conical shaped gear oil container. Cut the old container in half (your making a funnel basically) and shove the tubing on the old tip of the container and shove a clothes pin through the hose and tip to keep them together. I place the created funnel next to the brake reservoir and route the hose along the firewall down to the fill hole in the transmission. It won't fill super fast but standing and dumping fluid into a funnel is pretty easy.

 

I splurged and bought this. Makes the diffs and transfer changes so quick and easy. And the tire rotations. And changing those blades under the ZTR deck. Doing a generator rebuild right now and it makes it so much easier. The mountain now comes to Mohammed! That $9 Walmart pump will be the cat's meow. I've done quite a few messy gear oil changes in my lifetime, and that pump-up sprayer is truly a lightbulb moment!

 

The transfer case takes a completely different gear oil just so you know.. it’s a 75w LF fluid from Toyota is around $100 a qt.. I wouldn’t be using 75-90 in T-Case

 

At $100/quart some Toyota bean counters need their asses whipped.