BecketMa
Feb 19th, 2008, 12:41 am
Well. It was a beautiful day today. So I decided it was time to wash my LT. Most of the ground has dried out from recent rain (Yes it actually rained here!).
I rode her onto the back patio, put a block of 2X4 under the rear wheel, and backed her onto the center stand.
After I was finished washing her, I decide that since she was up, and it was nice out, I might as well changed the fluid in the rear end.
Once that was done, I figured I'd do the engine oil. I deftly laid down on my side, looked under neath to see what size allen wrench I need, and that is when I saw IT!
My cash pan was covered in oil mixed with dirt. There were rows of oil mixed with dirt hanging off the oil cooler fins, and off the cover for the oil filter. My heart sank.
Knowing there wasn't a thing I could do about it right then, I skulked off to get an oil filter from my garage.
I grabbed the filter box. It looked odd so I opened it. Sure enough, it was a fuel filter. I can't believe I only bought one oil filter last time!.
While I was there I grabbed one on my long neck funnels, labeled trany and rear end and headed back to my LT.
I dropped the caked crash pan, and cursed whomever decide to hang that bracket in front of the trany drain plug. I removed the plug, spilt oil, shoved my funnel into the spilling oil, wedged it into place, and began cleaning up the spilt oil.
As it was draining, I started removing tupperware screws and the foot peg bracket. I used the rubber band set up I made last time to tie it to the rear peg, removed the fill plug, shoved the flexible tubing into the hole, removed the cover from the funnel and added trany fluid into the funnel. It was then that I saw the problem.
I was pouring 75X135 fluid that sat in my unheated garage into a funnel with a FINE screen in it. It poured OK, but it wasn't going thru that screen faster than if it was molasses.
I hung the funnel upright with a bunge cord, and started cleaning up. Next, I made some coffee. With coffee cup in hand, I went back to watch the molasses. Its then I remembered that I shoulda measured how much I put into the funnel.
Next I figured out that the trany would fill faster if I put the drain plug back in?
You know whats worse than waiting for the trany oil to go through the screen? Its removing the plastic tubing when its done and seeing molasses coming out of the hole, and hour after sunset.
I think I'll drill a drain hole in the clutch housing, since my clutch isn't slipping. And then contemplate, if I'm really going to yank the trany out and start replacing oil seals?
I've seen the pix posted here, and read up on it. But, I don't know if I have the confidence to dis-embowel my LT, and then get everything back where it should be.
I remember when I bought my LT--I thought to my self, unlike my HDs, I wasn't going to have to modify it to get it to run right, and NO MORE oil leaks!
If I drill the drain hole large enough for the engine oil to leak out, can I just keep fillin up the oil and shove a oil leak pan under the LT and make believe she is a HD wanna be?
Bob Oh OH LT
I rode her onto the back patio, put a block of 2X4 under the rear wheel, and backed her onto the center stand.
After I was finished washing her, I decide that since she was up, and it was nice out, I might as well changed the fluid in the rear end.
Once that was done, I figured I'd do the engine oil. I deftly laid down on my side, looked under neath to see what size allen wrench I need, and that is when I saw IT!
My cash pan was covered in oil mixed with dirt. There were rows of oil mixed with dirt hanging off the oil cooler fins, and off the cover for the oil filter. My heart sank.
Knowing there wasn't a thing I could do about it right then, I skulked off to get an oil filter from my garage.
I grabbed the filter box. It looked odd so I opened it. Sure enough, it was a fuel filter. I can't believe I only bought one oil filter last time!.
While I was there I grabbed one on my long neck funnels, labeled trany and rear end and headed back to my LT.
I dropped the caked crash pan, and cursed whomever decide to hang that bracket in front of the trany drain plug. I removed the plug, spilt oil, shoved my funnel into the spilling oil, wedged it into place, and began cleaning up the spilt oil.
As it was draining, I started removing tupperware screws and the foot peg bracket. I used the rubber band set up I made last time to tie it to the rear peg, removed the fill plug, shoved the flexible tubing into the hole, removed the cover from the funnel and added trany fluid into the funnel. It was then that I saw the problem.
I was pouring 75X135 fluid that sat in my unheated garage into a funnel with a FINE screen in it. It poured OK, but it wasn't going thru that screen faster than if it was molasses.
I hung the funnel upright with a bunge cord, and started cleaning up. Next, I made some coffee. With coffee cup in hand, I went back to watch the molasses. Its then I remembered that I shoulda measured how much I put into the funnel.
Next I figured out that the trany would fill faster if I put the drain plug back in?
You know whats worse than waiting for the trany oil to go through the screen? Its removing the plastic tubing when its done and seeing molasses coming out of the hole, and hour after sunset.
I think I'll drill a drain hole in the clutch housing, since my clutch isn't slipping. And then contemplate, if I'm really going to yank the trany out and start replacing oil seals?
I've seen the pix posted here, and read up on it. But, I don't know if I have the confidence to dis-embowel my LT, and then get everything back where it should be.
I remember when I bought my LT--I thought to my self, unlike my HDs, I wasn't going to have to modify it to get it to run right, and NO MORE oil leaks!
If I drill the drain hole large enough for the engine oil to leak out, can I just keep fillin up the oil and shove a oil leak pan under the LT and make believe she is a HD wanna be?
Bob Oh OH LT