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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. For those that are OCD , the handle is just a piece of 3/4" conduit and a ebay white sparkle bike grip and the paint is Rustoleum enamel with acrylic enamel hardner. Cool Sinclair sticker is a Ebay necessity. 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.......

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