- Dec 4, 2011
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This is something that I came across that I thought I'd share with you guys. We all know how annoying it can be to get fluid up in a differential or transfer case. The little screw-on pumps for bottles take a billion pumps to fill anything and are stiff with gear oil, the hand-held pumps work but again give you a workout, plus you have to hold two hoses in place or you get oil everywhere.
Enter the modified 1 gallon sprayer tank!
I got a two pack at Menards for around $15 plus tax, which is only slightly more than a pair of those cheap bottle pumps. Perfect for the two main types of fluids I'd need them for (transfer case and differential gear oil), and the smaller 1 gallon size fits easier near or under a vehicle if you're up on jack stands.
Slight modification necessary - unscrew the end and take out the spray nozzle.
Fill with your favorite oil, pump it up a few pumps, stick the nozzle in the fill hole, and squeeze the trigger! These even have a "hold on" feature on the trigger by sliding it forward when squeezed so you don't even have to keep squeezing the trigger. Talk about easy.
It isn't super fast, but it worked well, and I was able to prop it in the fill hole so that I could go and do something else while it was filling up. I'd occasionally pump the handle a couple times to keep it under pressure.
When done filling, I released the pressure from the tank, then held the wand upright and squeezed the trigger to let the oil run back out of it into the tank to reduce dripping from the wand.
Enter the modified 1 gallon sprayer tank!
I got a two pack at Menards for around $15 plus tax, which is only slightly more than a pair of those cheap bottle pumps. Perfect for the two main types of fluids I'd need them for (transfer case and differential gear oil), and the smaller 1 gallon size fits easier near or under a vehicle if you're up on jack stands.
Slight modification necessary - unscrew the end and take out the spray nozzle.
Fill with your favorite oil, pump it up a few pumps, stick the nozzle in the fill hole, and squeeze the trigger! These even have a "hold on" feature on the trigger by sliding it forward when squeezed so you don't even have to keep squeezing the trigger. Talk about easy.
It isn't super fast, but it worked well, and I was able to prop it in the fill hole so that I could go and do something else while it was filling up. I'd occasionally pump the handle a couple times to keep it under pressure.
When done filling, I released the pressure from the tank, then held the wand upright and squeezed the trigger to let the oil run back out of it into the tank to reduce dripping from the wand.
