Pour Choices
Mark SimpsonDescription
Our classic cars require several different fluids to keep them in running order. However, the containers they come in don’t always make pouring a little more fluid an easy task. Adding brake fluid, automatic transmission fluid, power steering fluid, etc… can be a tricky situation on many classic cars, often resulting in the cleanup of spilled fluids.
Fortunately the task of pouring fluids can be made a lot easier with the stuff you already have. Mark Simpson demonstrates how many of the fluid bottles we commonly use share the same size and thread of other bottles. Making it an easy task to add a little brake fluid using the pointed cap from a gear oil bottle, or adding just a little power steering fluid using a cap from a dish soap bottle. Many caps have self closing/sealing features also like sport drink tops, making it easy to keep a spare in the trunk of your car.
So stop wrestling with trying to get a bottle into tight spaces or searching the garage for the right funnel, when the best solution may already be sitting on your shelf. There are several pouring choices to make when determining the best bottle top for your situation, but with a little time, your efforts will be rewarded with years of trouble free pouring.
Whenever you're servicing your classic car, you're always running into a case where you might want to grab a funnel or you got to get a fluid down into a tight spot. But there's a lot of tops that fit the same bottles in this case. It's a, it's like a dish soap container that will easily fit on an oil bottle or a power or automatic transmission fluid bottle or a brake fluid bottle. And likewise, here, here's a brake fluid bottle with a uh gear lobe top on it and it screws on just fine. Now, I can get that brake fluid into those tight master cylinders or tight locations. I can get my A T F down into my power steering pump or down into that, that automatic transmission fillers tube, which is usually a tough thing. But with a, with a top like this, it's easily done. Simple solution. Get you out of the, get your fluids back in your car, get you back out on the road.
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