This weekend I have re-fitted the hoses, filled the radiator, changed the engine oil and filter, the gearbox, transfer box and power steering fluids and the diff oils (I love the smell of hypoid in the morning. It smells like... Land Rover! )
I have to say that - after years of playing around with cr@p drain tanks like this:
which invariably split or wear out due to sliding on concrete, and aren't big enough and can't cope with windy days when your stream blows around, and leak and end up with oil all over the outside which needs wiping up... I finally bought one of these:
and it is brilliant! It's tough, big, easy to handle, creates no mess and hangs up on the garage wall after use. If you don't have one already - get one!
The other thing that made life a LOT easier yesterday, was a Hozelok 5 litre pressure sprayer. I bought this about 5 years ago when I decided to impress my then GF by killing all the weeds, since she left my policy towards weeds is more of a live and let live one and the sprayer has stood behind the bins, slowly turning green and being claimed by it's intended victims..
Anyway - faced with trying to get 2.7litres of ATF uphill into a 20mm dia hole I remembered hearing about someone using one of these and so I dug it out, along with the 'hanging basket attachment' which has been languishing at the back of the shed in case I ever got a hanging basket.. (yeah, right..)
Well - I don't know if the ATF will attack the pump or body of the sprayer but the experience of just lying there gently filling the box and releasing the valve when it was full was almost relaxing!
I think that the sprayer things are around £20 - which is a lot to throw away if the fluid does attack it, and I wouldn't have done it if the thing hadn't been going to waste, but you know - I think it may even be worth buying one just for the job it was that good.
Next - the master cylinder and servo