Here's the pics I promised. As you can see, there is at least 3" of top cover behind the access panel. I don't think it's coming off without dropping the tranny. But, I have a plan, that's going to wait until tomorrow.
Tonight I went out, with a drain pan and a funnel to drain the tranny and
Transfer Case . I underestimated how slowly 80W-90 drains out of a funnel, and I ended up with half of the tranny oil all over the garage floor. I finally get it all cleaned up, take the garbage can back to where it belongs, and kick over a can of Mt Dew
Clean up the Mt Dew, replace the garage garbage bag and come back in the house to watch football...
I was looking at yours pics....
I have a stock
T-18 in my 78
CJ7 ..... and your the
T-18 looks kinda tight to your sheet metal tunnel....
The
T-18 is a big
Transmission and uses 7/8" of shim stock between the skid plate and the frame rails..... This gives a bit more room so the
Transmission does not bounce and hit the body and helps with the drive line anges tooo... Jeep used seven 1/8" shims stacked to lower the
Transmission /skid plate... I will take a guess you hear the
T-18 hit thle body at times when wheeling.
Fill the
Transfer Case and
Transmission ...
I purchase a Valve/Fill Adapter at Wallmart for oil bottles... It fits on the quarts and gallons of GL4. The Valve/Fill adapter also has a tappered end so I used a pc of plastic/vinly hose... So the gear lube can be gravity filled. Since you have the cover off already or can be squeezed in there too... I found is squeezed the valve will leak a bit.... I also found the gallon / quart of gear lube can be raised up on the frame or propped up there so it willl gravity fed. Since you have the top of tunnel off I would go there and gravity feed. The valve/fill adapter was cheap 1-2$
The best way to feed gear lube.....
I have seen the1-2 gallon pressure tanks for adheasives that use a dip tube..... Years ago say these for nothing..... now I cannot see one... Put the gallon of gear lube in there with a dip tube.... cover the pressure vessel..... raise the pressue to 15-20 psi and the grear lube with flow tru the tubing and fill your pumpkings or
Transmission /transf...... This would make the job much easier and faster.... Need a valve on end of hose to turn on/off..... I am still looking for one on the cheap
GL4......
Napa has a Gl4 and so does Broomgards Farm Store. Napa double their price when I started posting they had it a few years ago... Broomgards sells 2.5 gal for $25.
I am still doing some testing...... but ..... the best fluid for our jeep
Transmission is the Amsoil MTF , manual
Transmission fluid, it has all our trimec
Transmission listed on the back lable. I put this in my toyota 1.5 years ago and I am very impressed. My
T-18 has 36k orginal miles and works great........ I am putting MTF in there in the next wk or soo....... I think it will make my TRUCK
Transmission shift like a std
Transmission .... It sells for $11 quart. I think 5 quarts will do the
T-18 and transf. So next change give it a whirl.... I think you will be impressed....
