Changing diff oil

Try a hardware shop for a small hand pump.
Cheers Pete

1. Agricultural sprayers (cheap) do work without the spray nozzle attached however you have to be patient its slow, just pump up the pressure and away you go.

2. A good length of old garden hose poked in around 6 inches and out ubder the car and stand there with a small funnel in the top pouring slowly. Again a slow process and bot these not really messy.

3. Supa cheap or similar have big syringes at a reas. rate. I have a 750ml one that I use and its really effective. You have to be really carefull to avoid mess and it involves a lot of getting in and out from under the car but of all the ways I keep going back to this. Remember that an effect draw on a 750ml syringe is around 500ml or half a litre. You roughly only get an effective draw of 2/3 to 3/4 of the syringes capacity.


Hope these help you.

Keep looking around. Yes you can use a big syringe type contraption as mentioned but it can make mess and diff oil stinks. A better way is to use a pump that pumps it straight from the bottle into the diffs.

Decent auto parts shops should have them in stock if not they should get one in for you.

Cheapest way is to buy some clear plastic tube and a funnel that fits into it, place something like a ladder next to the vehicle and tape the funnel to the ladder (higher the better) Place a catch can under the diff/box and start filling until it just overflows.

Have a rum or 3 while you are doing the job.

Have a good one

best wy is to go to bunnings and get a 5l weed spray pump. should be cheap. Pull off the spray wan leaving just the hose and use that to pump i the oil. Just be ready to release the pressure when the diff is full
Been using this method for a few years now and it is fairly quick and the ducks guts for doing the job easily, cheaply and fairly cleanly

I have used a topup bottle that has a screw on lid with a tube attachment. Have a look where you buy your diff oil & you should see one.
It is slow because you have to keep refilling the bottle, but is less messy then the tube & hose method.
The professional way is a hand pump that goes into a 20 litre drum. It has a hooked pipe on the hose that just hangs in the filling hole.

Kev

There's 2 items you can use, 1 ...an oil pump that fits 5Ltr containers...2 is a oil suction gun, how you use that is stick it's twozzle into the container of oil and draw back the handle thus filling it up with oil, then squirt it into that little hole that's meant to add oil with .
Then again it might be just as easy for you to take it to the local garage and get the job done 3 times as fast and you keep your hands clean ,
Those suckers are a messy damn thing ,

.

I have one of those plastic squeeze pumps. Costs about $3 anywhere. Works well enough.

Geez, all of a sudden I feel I am a bit more high tech than some of the other respondents.....

I have an old air cylinder from a truck. It sits on 3 legs in an upright position. I estimate it holds about 20 to 30 litres. It has a screw-on lid (same as 44 gallon drum) as well as an outlet on the bottom, an air gauge on the side, a relief tap on the side and a fitting to attach to my compressor on the top.

I simply place the oil in the tank, screw on the lid, hook up the air and pump up to about 30psi and then climb under the truck with the hose in hand. There is about 6 feet of plastic hose from the tank, then a simple ball valve tap and another 1 foot or so of hose.

Once I'm under the truck, I stick the hose in the filler hole, turn the tap on and let the air pressure do the oil transfer job.

Too easy. hahahaha

Bought a pump from supercheap, does the job. Steve M

I think I have used all the methods described here over the years (except perhaps Roachie's fancy air tank pump thingy).

In the end I got totally sick and tired of the mess, stinking oil, particulary diff oil, so went and lashed out on a McNaught 20 litre drum pump.........best thing I ever did and figured I saved the amount it cost in the first service.

You do need to buy oils in 20 litre drums of course, which often also tends to be cheaper than buying the smaller 5 litre containers.

So I now have 20l oil to suit both diffs, 20l to suit transfer case and 20 litres to suit gearbox....expensive but will last YEARS. AND I always have some in case of oil contamination and can decant some for longer trips if I feel the need. I also have one of those syringes for trips, but I avoid it like the plague as it's way to messy.

You will regret all the fiddling about and learn to hate servicing your car if you don't get the equipment that you need.

Disregard above if you're not going to be committed to home servicing for some time.

Cheers,

Mark

Thanks for all the replies

I decided to try the syringe method and that just plain sucks.
What a horrible mess it makes, my shed now stinks of diff oil.
Next time I think I will have to invest in a better solution. At least the job is done for now and I wont have to do it for a while.

Cheers

Andrew