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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 05:01 PM
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Default Filling the damn transfer case.

Tools? Techniques? Ideas? It's a vertical hole in a tight place and it's driving me crazy.
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 05:12 PM
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Autozone sells a flexible tube to screw onto fluid bottle, works good on transfer and axles.
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 05:12 PM
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?? IIRC it's not so tough...Dexron III in a quart jug. I forget if you need to mash the bottle some. Squish/fold it it.
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 05:46 PM
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I use a small hand pump to fill my TC and diffs.
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 05:49 PM
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Drill hole in floor. Use funnel with tubing. Have friend pour into funnel from cab while you lay underneath and guide into fill out. RTV the s%^ out of floor hole.

DONE!

(yes, I am joking; use the cheap $1 bendy thing mentioned above and just squeeze the bottle and work it around like your first date night and it'll work).
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 06:17 PM
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Save a gear oil top off the bottle. Screw onto atf bottle, add hose and fill.
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by bulrid8
Save a gear oil top off the bottle. Screw onto atf bottle, add hose and fill.
this. xeleventybillion
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by bulrid8
Save a gear oil top off the bottle. Screw onto atf bottle, add hose and fill.
cheap bastards unite!
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 06:54 PM
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Outstanding...and the wife doesn't let me date. So my last/first date night lies somewhere in the misty past of the late 80's.
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by mr white
cheap bastards unite!
Is there a membership fee?
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 07:15 PM
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Marine lower unit oil bottle pump. Auto zone sells them in my town. Cost 9$ and you can pump diff and transfer case oil alllll day long. Just did mine last weekend..
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 08:26 PM
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just an idea..and not sure if someone have though if it, but what about like an old soap bottle with a hand pump? or something? attach a hose, fill and pump the hell out of it till T case is full?

or you could just make an old propane tank into a air compressed filling tank. what my buddy did.
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 09:29 PM
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I just used a long skinny funnel and jammed the bottle up there. Don't even have to hold it.
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 10:00 PM
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Here's a marine lower unit on amazon. I think that's a great idea.

Amazon.com: Lubrimatic-stant-truflate 55005 Marine Lower Unit Pump: Sports & Outdoors Amazon.com: Lubrimatic-stant-truflate 55005 Marine Lower Unit Pump: Sports & Outdoors

I've tried the gear oil top but that's a lot of squeezing to get the oil up the tube.

BTW-I did the hole-in-the-floor on another vehicle and that works really well too!!
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 10:40 PM
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The hand pumps at Autozone and Advance all received horrible reviews so I went with a marine lower unit off of Amazon. Thanks all...
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