devildog1971 wrote:
The filler tube is to the left of the hole where the dipstick is located. There is nothing to pull out up sideways or any direction. There is not even enough room to turn up a quart bottle and empty it. The funnels you get at these box auto stores are hopeless as well as most of the workers. the funnels with a hose long enough to fit in the fill tube, the tube on those funnels are about the size of a straw. The best have heard is the piece of PVC pipe or one that just came to me find a flexible radiator hose one of those you can bend in any direction. I have a theory about how motorhomes are built. Engineers draw them out and build them but these same engineers have never used one in every aspect especially over time
This is strange that you have no pull out sleeve...
Well, whatever.
My Bounders fill tube did have a sleeve that I could pull out, but even then you couldn't get a 5 qt bottle of oil in there and empty it into the fill tube. What I did was buy a rather large plastic funnel, and then got around 2' of 1/2" clear plastic tubing that
just fit over the end of the funnel. Friction fit didn't need a clamp.
I'd prop open the grill and bungee it in place so it was level with the funnel in place, plastic tubing inserted into the oil filler tube, climb my 2 step ladder so I could pour the oil in from a 5 qt jug. In other words, I'd use that rear access cover grill to support the funnel and that long tubing could snake down into that engine area for a oil fill. Sure, it took a while, but it worked and never spilled a drop. Much faster than trying to use a tiny funnel. I even showed a couple shops how to do it. Let them borrow my setup.
On my Cat, there is a bit more room and it also has the sleeve but so far I haven't had to add oil myself other than a quart. Have a shop do the oil changes, let them worry about getting the oil in. But the same situation. If I feel the need to change oil myself, I'll get a big funnel and some tubing just like before.
