Trail Toys Power Fill - Pressurized diff and tcase filler

[Anathollo]

I can see someones wife finding that charge on the CC statement and being like ..... WTF did you buy!?!

"I...bought hotjugz. What's the matter, don't you like showers?"

EDIT: Forgot to add quotation marks to the sentence.

 

[Silverback]

Yeah but the hot jugz you bought cost 1000's of dollars

 

[Boomtacoma01]

X1000 over your lifetime.

 

[Anathollo]

Yeah but the hot jugz you bought cost 1000's of dollars

X1000 over your lifetime.

My bad. I forgot to add quotation marks to my sentence. It was supposed to be me saying that to my wife when she see's the credit card statement.

 

[tx_shooter]

So I built a knock-off pressurized filler this morning. The local Lowes had a few 1 gallon jugs at $9 each. I am already looking to pickup the necessary parts to add a small pressure gauge and an air fitting so as to pressurize it from a compressor. The hand pumping part kind of sucks or I am just getting lazy.

I am looking to make one small change to the original design. The clear hose that goes into fill hole - I am going to bend a wire and zip tie it to the hose so as to be able to hook it into the port. Then I do not have to have a hand up there holding it in while I work the valve. I have the plastic tube that came with the sprayer I might try to work into a usable shape as long as it does not restrict the flow too much.

Once I have a pressure gauge on the tank I will measure the flow rate so I can simply fill, pressurize to the calibrated PSI, and then time the flow rate to fill the right amount of fluid.

Maybe I am just getting lazy.

 

[Silverback]

If I was to add a air fitting to allow a compressor to fill it I would also add a blow off valve set at about 25 psi or something. After seeing how fast my compresor can destroy a bike tire I'm sure that plastic bottle would be no match and it only takes a second for it to fill... I imagine the mess would be of epic proportions. LOL

 

[tx_shooter]

I was thinking about that as well. I will post the parts list once I have it complete. Then Trail Toys can offer it as the upgraded model.

 

[Taco Loco]

I was thinking about that as well. I will post the parts list once I have it complete. Then Trail Toys can offer it as the upgraded model.

Sounds good, I still have the other parts on my Amadong wish list

 

[SMKYTXN]

I wouldn't bother adding an air fitting to the 1 gallon tank. With about 10 pumps you have enough pressure to fill whatever you need. But if you're feeling that lazy go right ahead.

 

[tx_shooter]

Will be giving it a test run tomorrow when I do a fluid change on the next axle for the 4Runner. Guess I will see how good/bad the flow is then.