Stop Dripping Gearlube All Over the Floor! Jack Chesley

So, I thought I was clever. I've been filling transmissions for years by removing the fill plug in the side and pulling off the shift lever, the carpet and all the various boots and pouring new gear oil in the top until it started to come out the fill hole (of course I always forget to put a can under it to catch the overflow). Then, of course, I put everything back together. I just hate the idea of shelling out $ for a gear oil pump (even if someplace were open when I usually work on my car and the ones I've seen don't fit the synthetic gear oil bottles anyway). Then, I looked at my son's sports water bottle, and it clicked. I found a 2 foot length of clear fuel line, trimmed the nozzle from the gear oil bottle until the fuel line was a TIGHT fit, slid the fuel line to the bottom of the oil bottle and squeezed the oil up into the fill hole in less time than it used to take to remove the shift lever (plus, I can stop when it's full, instead of having a puddle on the floor when I'm done). PS, if you've been doing this for years, why didn't you tell me years ago!?!

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