You know it and I know it, we all know it, putting oil into your Norge is a royal PITA and when you hear someone tell you it isn't you know they are simply talking BS.
We've tried hoses, squirt bottles, syringes, tea pots, tiny funnels (yeah right) and I just know someone has gone the siphon route and can tell us all just what 10-60 tastes like.
It is time to stop the nonsense, there is a way, a way that really works and that works so well you will not drip one drop of oil when putting it into your Norge.
Here is what you are going to spend that $20 on:
1. One RoundUp sprayer.
2. A 3 pack of angled caulking tubes
3. Some silicone seal sealing tape
4. A small amount of glue for your glue gun.
That is it.
This is what you will do to make this work and what you will have is a pressurized lube machine for your Norge and any other vehicle you have that needs to get oil put into it.
1. Open the RoundUp sprayer box and blow out any nitty gritty plastic shaving from inside the sprayer bottle.
2. Assemble said sprayer and pressurize it and then blow the air out through the nozzle. That clears the way.
3. Remove the wand length (long part that threads into the handle)
4. Cut the wand end off AFTER the slight bend it has (look at the pic below)
5. Chamfer the cut end
6. Clean the cut end and the inside of one of the angled caulking tubes with alcohol.
7. Put some hot melt glue around the chamfered end of the wand making sure not to get any inside the tube.
8. Stick the cut end of the want into the angled caulking tube WHILE THE GLUE IT HOT AND MELTED.
9. Twist it and push the two parts together making sure the angle of the wand and the angle of the caulking tube are aligned and follow the same angle.
10. After it has cooled and the glue has set, wrap the two pieces tightly using the silicone self sealing tape.
Okay, now assemble the sprayer again and pressurize it. Blow out the air using the wand. There is a button that controls the flow of air. You can press it forward and allow the air to escape and release it to stop it. You can also set it to continuous flow.
Pout the amount of oil you want to put into your Norge, screw on the pump handle and pressurize it slightly. Test the flow putting the oil back into the container it came from. Do not think you are in dominion over plastic and pump it up to 3000 psi. As you pump it up, the flow will increase to a nice small but consistent rate. You are not trying to fill the engine in seconds but rather minutes. Patience will be rewarded until you get the feel for it.
The pick up tube is very thin so don't over pump.
Now, insert the nozzle you made into the oil fill hole and using whatever you have handy (velcro works great) hold the handle in place so that there is no stress on the nozzle. I used the handle bar of the Norge as the holding point.
Set the flow control to continuous and pressurize the sprayer. Again, go nice and slow. You will see the amount of oil in the sprayer tank being reduced. It might seem slow but it takes only about 10 minutes to fill the Norge from empty.
There you go. It is painless, easy to add just a small amount or fill after dumping the oil. It is clean and the flow control will completely cut off the flow so cleanly not one drop will come out once you stop it.
Here are the pictures.
This is what you need.
What the angled caulking tube looks like. Comes in a pack of 3.
How the nozzle will fit. See how the angle works perfectly?
The parts you will assemble. It takes only a few minutes.
Checking the flow rate. Steady and slow is better than fast and messy.
In practice. You can hold it but using a hangar from the handle bar makes this just watching.
That is all there is too it. No more messy things to fill your engine oil or top it off as needed. If you know exactly how much oil to put in, you can put that into the sprayer, pressurize it and set it to flow and just watch it. After about 10 minutes it is all done. You shut off the flow and remove the nozzle, not one drop of oil anywhere but inside the engine.
