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If you have a Cab Over and sick and tired of stripping your gear out of the cab, (if your not lucky enough to have a Hydraulic Cab Tift Lifting Device ie: Mitsubishi fuso, Hino, Isuzu etc) dropping the Bull bar and lifting the Cab up every time you need to top up with engine oil, Try this out ~ buy a little hand pump with a metal spout that screws onto a 4 or 5 litre oil container. Also a pack of clear pvc hose, (2 metres long would be more than enough) that’ll fit on to the metal spout of the hand pump and will slide into the oil dip stick tube, you need to push the hose in a good foot so the hose is now vertical in the dip stick tube so it won’t fall back out, and use some thing to stop the hose coming off the metal spout ie: thin wire, I use a motorbike hose clamp. Pump in the required amount of oil in to the engine, pull the hose out, put the dip stick in to check oil level, repeat if necessary – when you’re finished, I spin the hose around my head a few times to get the oil out of the hose so it wont make a mess in the toolbox - do it away from the cab or it will get covered in oil. Looking around $25 - $35 for hand pump and hose, it’s saved me a lot of time on the road and I’ve been doing it for nearly 10 years now.

Hope it helps:

Kerry Brown, Owner of Urgent Mine and Rail Freight, Perth, Western Australia 30/06/2010

Last Updated (Monday, 04 October 2010 10:50)

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