Filling Outdrive with Gear Oil using pressure?
05-20-2016 | 02:49 PM
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Filling Outdrive with Gear Oil using pressure?
I fill my bravo ones from the lower drain plug with a pump up garden sprayer.
I just hook up the sprayer and pump it up, filling the drive all the way up through the drive and into the reservoir bottle in the bilge until it hits the 'full' mark on the bottle. Is this OK to do? Any reasons not to do this?
Some say to just fill the drive up to the upper plug and then fill the reservoir from the top, but that tends to introduce a lot of air and i have to refill the reservoir for the first half of the season.
When i do my bottom up fill, i dont have to refill as much.
I just hook up the sprayer and pump it up, filling the drive all the way up through the drive and into the reservoir bottle in the bilge until it hits the 'full' mark on the bottle. Is this OK to do? Any reasons not to do this?
Some say to just fill the drive up to the upper plug and then fill the reservoir from the top, but that tends to introduce a lot of air and i have to refill the reservoir for the first half of the season.
When i do my bottom up fill, i dont have to refill as much.
05-20-2016 | 03:20 PM
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I fill my bravo ones from the lower drain plug with a pump up garden sprayer.
I just hook up the sprayer and pump it up, filling the drive all the way up through the drive and into the reservoir bottle in the bilge until it hits the 'full' mark on the bottle. Is this OK to do? Any reasons not to do this?
Some say to just fill the drive up to the upper plug and then fill the reservoir from the top, but that tends to introduce a lot of air and i have to refill the reservoir for the first half of the season.
When i do my bottom up fill, i dont have to refill as much.
I just hook up the sprayer and pump it up, filling the drive all the way up through the drive and into the reservoir bottle in the bilge until it hits the 'full' mark on the bottle. Is this OK to do? Any reasons not to do this?
Some say to just fill the drive up to the upper plug and then fill the reservoir from the top, but that tends to introduce a lot of air and i have to refill the reservoir for the first half of the season.
When i do my bottom up fill, i dont have to refill as much.
05-20-2016 | 03:37 PM
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05-20-2016 | 04:14 PM
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I fill my bravo ones from the lower drain plug with a pump up garden sprayer.
I just hook up the sprayer and pump it up, filling the drive all the way up through the drive and into the reservoir bottle in the bilge until it hits the 'full' mark on the bottle. Is this OK to do? Any reasons not to do this?
Some say to just fill the drive up to the upper plug and then fill the reservoir from the top, but that tends to introduce a lot of air and i have to refill the reservoir for the first half of the season.
When i do my bottom up fill, i dont have to refill as much.
I just hook up the sprayer and pump it up, filling the drive all the way up through the drive and into the reservoir bottle in the bilge until it hits the 'full' mark on the bottle. Is this OK to do? Any reasons not to do this?
Some say to just fill the drive up to the upper plug and then fill the reservoir from the top, but that tends to introduce a lot of air and i have to refill the reservoir for the first half of the season.
When i do my bottom up fill, i dont have to refill as much.
05-20-2016 | 07:55 PM
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The actual version listed in the current Bravo Service manuals lists as according.
Unscrew completely off the drive res cap - make sure o ring is still under cap.
Place drive complete level, - then fill from the bottom up with gear oil until solid stream of gear oil flows out the vent plug.
Install Vent plug screw and use a new o ring seal
then continue to fill UNTIL you see a good portion of gear oil in the bottle / reservoir.
Stop then add gear oil to the fill mark. Uninstall pump - install drain plug screw with new o ring seal. Let sit recheck level and fill to full mark. Then reinstall cap making sure O ring is in the cap.
My self after tthat point will go crack the vent plug screw until a small solid amount of gear oil comes out to help purge remaining air then retighten vent plug screw . re check to see level of gear oil in the bottle - top off if needed. This way all the air is purged.
Unscrew completely off the drive res cap - make sure o ring is still under cap.
Place drive complete level, - then fill from the bottom up with gear oil until solid stream of gear oil flows out the vent plug.
Install Vent plug screw and use a new o ring seal
then continue to fill UNTIL you see a good portion of gear oil in the bottle / reservoir.
Stop then add gear oil to the fill mark. Uninstall pump - install drain plug screw with new o ring seal. Let sit recheck level and fill to full mark. Then reinstall cap making sure O ring is in the cap.
My self after tthat point will go crack the vent plug screw until a small solid amount of gear oil comes out to help purge remaining air then retighten vent plug screw . re check to see level of gear oil in the bottle - top off if needed. This way all the air is purged.
Last edited by BUP; 05-20-2016 at 08:08 PM.
05-20-2016 | 08:44 PM
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you guys are using one of these? http://smile.amazon.com/Smith-Contra...s=pump+sprayer
I have the hand pump that fits the 2.5 gal bottle and it takes about 80 pumps to fill a drive and bottle.
I have the hand pump that fits the 2.5 gal bottle and it takes about 80 pumps to fill a drive and bottle.
