Skip to main content ↑ ↓
Topic: Easy job with the right tool (Read 465 times) previous topic - next topic

Easy job with the right tool

Changed the rear end fluid today in the bus, I didn't know the history of the fluid so decided today was the day. I have the bus on ramps made of old railroad ties so it made it easy to crawl under and get it done . I was trying to figure out how I was going to get the gear oil back in and a buddy had this at his shop, sure made it easy  ^.^d
Andy & Eileen
MONTROSE COLORADO
1992 U300  40' 6V92 TA
2016 4 Runner
1998 Jeep Grand cherokee

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee) Build # 4135 Skp# 122921

Re: Easy job with the right tool

Reply #1 –
Yup, easier than multiple "squeeze to fill" quarts, but that works if you don't have the "heavy equipment".
Brett Wolfe
EX: 1993 U240
Moderator, ForeForum 2001-
Moderator Diesel RV Club 2002-
Moderator, FMCA Forum 2009-2020
Chairman FMCA Technical Advisory Committee 2011-2020

Re: Easy job with the right tool

Reply #2 –
I just did mine and made my wife promise that if she heard me planning to do it again to say, NO WAY!! (Actually suggested much stronger language.) Four gallons is a lot to pour down a slippery little funnel while reclined under the coach. I even tried a YOUTUBE special garden pump hack. It kinda worked but was slower than slow.
1998 36 foot U270 Build No. 5328 WTFE, 900 watts solar, Victron controller, B2B, bat monitor, 600 AMPH lithium with 2018 Chevy Colorado toad, SKP #110239, Motorcade #17781, 2021 Escape 17B for when Coach is broken down and campsites are too small, retired and full-timer since Dec. 2020. Part of RV family since 1963.

Re: Easy job with the right tool

Reply #3 –
Nothing slicker or smells much worse to me than gear oil.
Dub McBride 1996 270

Re: Easy job with the right tool

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Realmccoy –
I just did mine and made my wife promise that if she heard me planning to do it again to say, NO WAY!! (Actually suggested much stronger language.) Four gallons is a lot to pour down a slippery little funnel while reclined under the coach. I even tried a YOUTUBE special garden pump hack. It kinda worked but was slower than slow.
Dub's wrong, gear oil has a wonderful aroma.

Somewhere in between the slippery funnel and the drum pump is what I call the grease syringe.  Harbor Freight calls it their $10 Pittsburgh Automotive Oil Suction Gun.  Don't be tricked by the words "gun" and "pump" in the description, it's just a heavy duty syringe.  It will get the job done . . . eventually.
1992 Foretravel Grand Villa
U225 SBID Build No. 4134
1986 Rockwood Driftwood
1968 S.I.A.T.A. Spring
1962 Studebaker Lark
1986 Honda VF700C
1983 Honda VF750C
Charlie, the Dog was broken out of jail 24 Oct 2023
N1RPN
AA1OH (H)e who must be obeyed.

Re: Easy job with the right tool

Reply #5 –
I did mine once with one of those small Harbor Freight hand pumps.
Needless to say it took a while and a lot of muscle.
1993 U225 Build #: 4285
500 Watts Solar
Honda CRV AWD
Former 1981 Foretravel Travco
Retired, Full Time Off Grid Snowbird

Re: Easy job with the right tool

Reply #6 –
Amsoil gear oil comes in 1 quart size and is in a squeeze bag,easy to put in,have someone opening and one person squeezing.
Yes it will take 20 bags but it's fast.
96 U270 BUILD 4810
85 380SL
Drummonds TN.

Re: Easy job with the right tool

Reply #7 –
I've used those hand pumps lots but I prefer the air pumps.
Peter and Frieda Morin
1999 36ft. U320 Foretravel
Build # 5436
1998 Suzuki Sidekick Sport

Re: Easy job with the right tool

Reply #8 –
Quote from: Dub –
Nothing slicker or smells much worse to me than gear oil.

How about burnt gear oil? Really tells you something is wrong.
1999 40 ft. U-320 wtfe build 5563 Chuck & Lynda's "Rollin' Inn"  2030 watts solar
prev. mh's 71 GMC 5 yrs. 73 Pace Setter 1 yr. 78 Vogue 5 yrs 81 FTX 40ft all electric 18 yrs. 1996 Monaco Signature 3 yrs.
2014 Grand Cherokee Overland
Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.  James Dean