Coolant filling tip

[GeoffCee]

I recently replaced the coolant on my RT and found getting the new coolant into the expansion tank without spills needed a little ingenuity so here is a photo of my string, funnel and hose contraption!

 

[KennW]

Inventive ;-)

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[Jeriatric]

Rube Goldberg would be proud

:firstplace: for originality

 

[Dan McNally]

:firstplace::thumbup:

 

[jerpinoy]

I recently replaced the coolant on my RT and found getting the new coolant into the expansion tank without spills needed a little ingenuity so here is a photo of my string, funnel and hose contraption!

I like it and I will use a clear plastic hose to eliminate over fill.

 

[Kingers]

Nice one Geoff, why didn't I think of that:dontknow:

 

[NancysToy]

What's the matter, isn't your third hand working? :roflblack: Very ingenious.

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

I recently replaced the coolant on my RT and found getting the new coolant into the expansion tank without spills needed a little ingenuity so here is a photo of my string, funnel and hose contraption!

You cheated!! You took the front plastic off!! :roflblack: :roflblack: :roflblack:

 

[Purple Guy]

Call the patent office! :roflblack:

 

[SpyderAnn01]

We have a piece of ice maker feed line hose attached to a funnel and it works great. Joe spent time this weekend showing our alignment customers how to check their coolant levels. It surprised me how many didn't know how.

 

[GeoffCee]

I like it and I will use a clear plastic hose to eliminate over fill.

You will notice a LED hand lamp in the photo stuffed in behind the expansion tank to illuminate the inside of the tank, the better to see the "MAX" line and the coolant level. It works great, too. I had the torch, string and funnel among my assortment of bric-a-brac which I optimistically refer to as my "toolbox".

My wife is a keen gardener and she has a hose which she uses to water her babies, (young itsy-bitsy plants). The onset of Spring is a busy time of year for the hose. It is green in color (see photo) and some time soon she's going to notice it's about 2 feet shorter than she remembers it. When she does the fur will fly. (My fur, that is). :sour:

 

[NancysToy]

We have a piece of ice maker feed line hose attached to a funnel and it works great. Joe spent time this weekend showing our alignment customers how to check their coolant levels. It surprised me how many didn't know how.

I use a long-necked, narrow funnel...same type I use to add oil.

 

[GeoffCee]

Adam Two

What's the matter, isn't your third hand working?

When I shuffle off this mortal coil I'm hoping to have a private word with the Creator. You'll no doubt be delighted to hear that a third hand is one improvement I have in mind to suggest for humanity, plus the ability to breathe normally while taking a stroll under water. An eye built into the end of an index finger would also come in mighty handy for those little places we just love to explore... Imagine never again having to turn your Spyder upside down to recover something you accidentally dropped into its guts. Wow! You'll be able to poke around with your finger and see where it got to! ray:

 

[SpyderAnn01]

When I shuffle off this mortal coil I'm hoping to have a private word with the Creator. You'll no doubt be delighted to hear that a third hand is one improvement I have in mind to suggest for humanity, plus the ability to breathe normally while taking a stroll under water. An eye built into the end of an index finger would also come in mighty handy for those little places we just love to explore... Imagine never again having to turn your Spyder upside down to recover something you accidentally dropped into its guts. Wow! You'll be able to poke around with your finger and see where it got to! ray:

Just like Keebler Cookies our Spyders are built by tiny little elves in a hollow tree!

 

[NancysToy]

When I shuffle off this mortal coil I'm hoping to have a private word with the Creator. You'll no doubt be delighted to hear that a third hand is one improvement I have in mind to suggest for humanity, plus the ability to breathe normally while taking a stroll under water. An eye built into the end of an index finger would also come in mighty handy for those little places we just love to explore... Imagine never again having to turn your Spyder upside down to recover something you accidentally dropped into its guts. Wow! You'll be able to poke around with your finger and see where it got to! ray:

Geoff, I'm all for the eye on the end of the index finger, but it might make certain necessary body maintenance functions quite awkward. roflmao :roflblack:

 

[GeoffCee]

Just like Keebler Cookies our Spyders are built by tiny little elves in a hollow tree!

...which maybe explains a great deal about their hit and miss reliability.

Keebler Cookies I have never seen, tasted or even heard of but tiny elves living in hollow trees form part of my distant ancestry folklore. As my dear old mother loved to remind me with a twinkle in her eye, I'm 1/8th Southern Irish and distantly related to a dirt-poor family of peat cutters and blarney-stone spouters (tall tale spinners). :roflblack:

She first told me about this when I was very young, I think I was attending infant school. Later my tutors introduced me to maths so I then had an understanding of 1/8th as a fraction. It wasn't until my pre-teens that they introduced the subject of animal and human procreation and at last I could figure out how it was possible for a person to be 1/8th of something. It had been a secret worry for most of my childhood that I wasn't a complete person. Most of me was living in Southern Ireland. My Mum had meant well, of course, but kids run away with the wrong impression sometimes, especially when they hear stuff from people they trust implicitly. And not only kids...

 

[GeoffCee]

Geoff, I'm all for the eye on the end of the index finger, but it might make certain necessary body maintenance functions quite awkward. roflmao :roflblack:

Here's mud in your eye, Scotty! :roflblack: