Homebuilt gear lube installer

I needed to change my truck lube and refill my Charger rear and the thought of squeezing all those bottles or pumping that pump made my arthritis cringe so I made a rear lube installer out of an empty R134a pig and some time. Heres a quick buildup and some pics. I braized the top fitting, handle and wheel stand on because I needed to renew some old skills and the crappy china pipe fittings weld like crap. If I changed one thing overall, I would change the top fitting to a 1 1/2 male plug with a 1/2 hole with a pipe plug in it. I remembered that from the last one I built 15 years ago about 10 minutes after I did it just like the last one. Oh well. The wheels came off a dumpster find grill, the AC hose from Ebay, the adapter fittings for the hose to tank and blow gun from NAPA and the blowgun from my collection of misfit tools. I still need to add a piece of copper tubing to the blow gun. I also bought a tire valve somewhere because I had one that I used. Basically, cut a hole and put on your lube fill valve. Drill a hole and put in the air fill valve. Install the hose to the original shutoff valve on the bottom of the tank with blow gun. Fill with lube, pressurize with air, bend copper tubing to stick in side of trans and push the button. Volare ! The handle, wheels and paint are just extras you need if you want the other guys in your shop to think that you are OCD. Please note that all tools are dangerous, welding pipe will kill you, it's illegal to reuse a Freon tank , pressures above 160 will blow out the popoff valve and this is not for internal use. It had to be said......lane:

I like it. Thanks for posting.

That's really neat .. love the Sinclair Dino

I like that. Is the 3/8 'fill hose' adequate for gear oil? I am planning on one as soon as I find a tank.

That looks great. I think you could use it as a brake pressure bleeder too.

I like to accent my projects with the Sinclair Dino stuff because I stil remember the gas station in my hometown and something about the green and red against the white gets my motor running. I stil remember the smell of it, and these multipaned swinging doors that the guys banged through going from the back to front. There was also the map rack, oil cans, a shelf full of old give away soaps ( in the shape of Dino) the dinging bell of the cars pulling in, the hum of the pumps and that really cool sound that the stab type oil fillers make in a old flat top can. All on a sunny summer day with my Dad, while drinking a cold bottle of Mountain Dew out of the machine where you pull the bottle out of the front. Those were the days........ I actually ended up with that large enameled sign that hung out in front years later and I've got to say it about killed me the day I had to sell it. BTW I use Rustoleum dark hunter green paint with enamel hardner in it . I could match up an exact color match but it's close and cheap. I like to take pictures of old Sinclair stations also and there is a real neat one near St. Louis with a big fiberglass Dino out in front that is worth the trip.

tallhair said:

That's really neat .. love the Sinclair Dino

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another cheap project. Like to find a dome shaped swinging door top for it later on. 16 gallon steel can, one decal and paint. Hardest part is not using it to lay something on to paint. Current project are an old desk lamp to become Dinoed and a really cool art deco kitchen cabinet with sliding glass doors that I keep my 1/64 cars in that will be Dinoed up to look like it was a display case out of an old service station.

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Badvert65 said:

I like that. Is the 3/8 'fill hose' adequate for gear oil? I am planning on one as soon as I find a tank.[/QUOTE
It's not super fast but on the last one I used air hose held on by hose clamps. I hated that so this time I wanted a nice clean bolt together setup. If you can find a old R12 tank you can screw out the old shut off and upgrade the fittings to whatever size needed. I also thought about laying the tank sideways and painting it up to look like a WWII bomb with some flat green, stenciled numbers and some red or yellow nose rings. You could make the fittings in the back and do whatever size you needed.

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Cool stuff .. that kitchen cabinets gonna be sweet so show it and the lamp off when done