oil fill via dipstick tube

[crankedup]

I am topping up my gearbox oil and need to use the dipstick filler tube. Can you advise me best way to heat the oil to make filling quicker please?

[Oldandslow]

Bain Marie? Put oil can in a warm/hot water bath. Probably transfer oil to an open metal container and not boiling water.

Don't mix 'em.

[Funky Squirrel]

Bucket of hot/ boiling water and drop oil bottle in?

Too slow

[crankedup]

Thanks chaps, good job I didn’t put it on the gas stove then!

[Caddyshack]

You can normally get a pump. I used a huge syringe on my Renault twizy gearbox

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Caddyshack said:

You can normally get a pump. I used a huge syringe on my Renault twizy gearbox

I thought about a pump of some sort but have ordered a funnel with small diameter flexi hose. Guess what I will be doing on Saturday!

[imagineifyeswill]

what kind of vehicle is it

[227bhp]

Put it in a glass jar in the microwave, I do it regularly at work. When it's getting a bit too hot to touch that's enough and it'll go in like water.

[paintman]

Just be absolutely sure that your gearbox actually requires oil as opposed to atf.

A lot of manual boxes now use atf (first one I had was a 5 speed 1983 Mk2 Granada) & using EP in one of those will not properly lubricate the box as the EP is too thick.

[227bhp]

paintman said:

Just be absolutely sure that your gearbox actually requires oil as opposed to atf.

A lot of manual boxes now use atf (first one I had was a 5 speed 1983 Mk2 Granada) & using EP in one of those will not properly lubricate the box as the EP is too thick.

It's the synchros which benefit from it, not the bearings.

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imagineifyeswill said:

what kind of vehicle is it

Fiat coupe 20vt

Thanks to all contributors for comment and advise. Think I will try the microwave heating idea.
The funnel hose I purchased online, the hose is to big to fit down the dipstick tube, now got a small plastic funnel.

Edited by crankedup on Friday 18th October 14:56

[Jakg]

I bought one of these for about £17 for my Z4 - the fill is on the gearbox in the transmission tunnel so you can't get to it with a hose and use gravity.



Way easier than using a funnel, although you do get a bit of an arm workout.

[crankedup]

Cheers again, job done now I used two funnels, a tiny narrow nozzle into the dipstick tube and a larger funnel to feed the small funnel.
Warming up the oil in microwave and wife asked me what I was cooking, I said gearbox oil. That was a mistake