RE: The plane, the plane! and a question

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

> My question, I'm helping my father rebuild his brakes this weekend, and do
> some other things as well. We are going to change the transmission fluid,
> but are looking for a good way to do it. It was suggested to him to fill
it
> from inside the car (I guess through a drain in the rear floor?) but he's
> got his pristinely new carpet and upholstery to think about. The other
> option is a hand pump, but he hasn't found one that's easy to use. Anyone
> else have any suggestions?

One method for filling the transmission that I didn't see mentioned is to
just use the tall gear lube container - stick the tip into the filler hole
and squeeze.  It's not the easiest thing, the angle is all wrong, but you
can typically get about half the bottle in this way.  Do that with a couple
of bottles, merge the contents of the two half empty bottles, continue.

I'm still looking for an elegant hand pump.

bs

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