Subject: OT not exactly garage related but tool question Author: kend1606 : member since July, 2004 : 334 posts Posted on: 2007-04-22 16:14:41

Didn't want to clutter up the main pages with this but I need some help with a special "tool". Not even Bimmer but my little white rabbit, '01 XK8. It has a very annoying tranny leak that I can't track down but I need to check and top off the tranny anyway. Leave it to the Brits to design something that can't be maintained but the fill/check hole in this ZF tranny is just a hair above an exhaust pipe and in an awful place for accessibility. I have a case of Amsoil Universal ATF but need fill/check help. I've figured that if I put her up on 4 jack stands, way up, I could get under her and fill the tranny. Side note, I'll probably need to do this as a one-man job.... I’m thinking that if I had a hand pump or some contraption that would fit on a bottle of fluid, I could take it under the car and either turn the bottle upside down and clamp off a plastic line and release the clamp to fill a little or hand pump a little at a time into the fill/check hole. Sorry if this is too much info but I’ve been through old boxes of “stuff” and can’t come up with a MacGyver process to do this. Griot’s has a hand pump that is even fluid resistant which would be nice. Anyone used this before? Thanks, Ken


'01 740il Build 09/00 Received 4/2001 Blk/Blk
Dinan Stage I engine & tranny software
Replaced original phone system w/Bluetooth
Zionsville alloy radiator
Strong Arm
Brembo rotors w/Mintex pads
V1 Hard-Wired to overhead console
74k miles - 3/2007

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