Mechanics: Oil pressure-pumps, can use a gardening pressure pump sprayer?

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JMikeyH

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Becoming apparent that a pressure pump for changing gearbox oil is going to save me a huge headache than trying to do a gearbox service without it. The pressure pumps I am seeing are in the region of £150, yet there are near-identical sprayers for gardening (weed killer, fertiliser etc) that cost a tenner.

Is there any reason why I cannot use a gardening-style pump (minus the sprayer) for this job? Plastics different? Contaminants to the oil? It seems that even when looking at the manual pumps, simply being car related means it is costing 2 to 3 times as much per litre of capacity
 
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Yep, any bug bottle type sprayer does for oil. The more you spend, the more likely you are to get sturdy, less brittle plastics.
 
JMikeyH said:
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with the synthetic oils being thinner I think it will be fine..the old hypoid 90 was like treacle.
 
We use standard Hozelock 7l sprayers at work to fill systems with Tellus 22.

They work fine. We replace the hose with yellow Tygon since the standard goes hard with time when used with oil.

Hozelock do a version with Viton seals, which would be better if your oil attacks the normal seals.
 
Glevum said:
We use standard Hozelock 7l sprayers at work to fill systems with Tellus 22.

They work fine. We replace the hose with yellow Tygon since the standard goes hard with time when used with oil.

Hozelock do a version with Viton seals, which would be better if your oil attacks the normal seals.
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ROV boy perhaps ?
 
Yes, I’ve also used the hose lock to change gearbox oil on Range Rover L322 and all the front, rear diff and transfer box oil on L200.
If the oil is quite viscous it maybe worth putting the bottles in hot water to warm them up and make it flow better.
 
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