Has anyone done or seen a good write up on how to change our tranny fluid? Im going to install a deeper B&M pan and a FTVB this month once all the parts arrive. I guess Im going to go with the Royal Purple ATF unless you guys have a better sugestion. I dont want to pay to have this done when it looks so simple, but I could use some instructions incase the supplied ones arent good. Thanks

 

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not a single person on here knows how?

 

I'm waiting too.
Some people recommend doing a flush of the tranny to get all the old oil out.

 

its suposidly expensive to do that

 

I don't know, I'm trying to find out.

 

Must be summer vacation time with this little response...I bought 16 qts of Mercon 5, undid the lower tranny cooler connection on the radiator and slid a 3/8 diameter rubber hose over the flare end of the tranny line. Got a 5 gal bucket with a lid, fed the hose thru the top. Found a large funnel with a slender neck to go in the dipstick tube, opened 4 qts and made ready to go. Started the truck in idle and started pouring. By the 12th quart, bright red fluid was going into the 5 gal bucket, so I turned the engine off and topped up. Rehooked the lines and went for a test drive. Checked again and finished. Shifted better and I felt better too! jb

 

I opted to do the drain & refill myself at 30,000 miles. I pulled the trans pan, r&r'd the filter. I then drained the torque convertor (my '01 has a drain plug on the convertor). I refilled and test drove and topped it off.

After a trip this weekend, I'm real close to 50,000 miles.