Checking,Filling,Changing ATF

[Got 8?]

Sure if you happen to be blessed with a lift....

Nah just a garage and four jackstands...LOL

[wreckwriter]

Nobody but me seems to have a big issue with this but it well and truly pisses me off. Never in my life have I had a car where I couldn't check my trans fluid. I consider this a large screwing courtesy of GM.

[EC-Ryder]

Ford, Isuzu, Honda, M-benz, BMW and some others have been doing it this way for awhile. Statistically this method leads to longer life because cheap or incorrect fluids wont be installed. BMW trans fluid is $120 a GALLON! They say if it needs it something is wrong and to R&R trans. I will take our trans any day!

Yep! I was way ahead of them...I used to have to check it often, but about 10-12 years ago i stopped and never worried about it.

I like to be able to check my own fluid level. This is, by far, the thing I like least about this car.

Big brother thinks he knows best. Seals will never ever leak, and u never have to drive your car through hight water.

Just a thought!

Cheers!

[lsp408]

so let me get this straight,

to simplefy the steps. first just start car and run through gears then back to park and then remove rubber fill plug and the plug at the bottom of pan. keep fill fluid til it come out of hole at the bottom. then put both plugs back. thats it???

[wreckwriter]

so let me get this straight,

to simplefy the steps. first just start car and run through gears then back to park and then remove rubber fill plug and the plug at the bottom of pan. keep fill fluid til it come out of hole at the bottom. then put both plugs back. thats it???

Yea that's basically it except for the half hour or more you spend getting your car level on jack stands so you can get under it to do that if you don't happen to have a lift handy.

[g8_795]

I found the fill plug on the top with the black plugs but the "drip" plug I am not finding?

Is the big main drain plug on the bottom of the pan also the plug that should drip when filled correctly?

Thanks,
Robert

[wreckwriter]

I found the fill plug on the top with the black plugs but the "drip" plug I am not finding?

Is the big main drain plug on the bottom of the pan also the plug that should drip when filled correctly?

Thanks,
Robert

Yep. Basically back/center.

[g8_795]

Cool. Thanks Tom.

So this make me wonder how you would drain all of the transmission fluid if you wanted to? Drop the pan?

[GRRRR8]

Cool. Thanks Tom.

So this make me wonder how you would drain all of the transmission fluid if you wanted to? Drop the pan?

Correct. Stupid design,but lets not get Tom started.

[DRCUSTOMPARTS]

It would be easier to change the spark plugs than to check or fill the trans. WTF were those idiots thinking at GM?