How to Change Your Automatic Transmission Fluid and Filter in 11 Easy Steps!

Firstly make sure your car is warmed up and the transmission is a normal operating temperature after the park on a flat surface. Pull the transmission dipstick (located near the firewall in most cars) and examine the liquid notes of the scale. fresh liquid is translucent and cherry red. Some darkening is normal, but if it is brown or mustard color and smells like burnt varnish, it is time to change. Sold transmission fluid no longer protects, lubricates and cools the transmission and can result in poor repair or rough shifting and costly. Here's how you change yourself

1. Before you begin, make sure you have enough transmission fluid with the correct specification for your vehicle and the board and the right to replace the filter to be removed from the tray. Drain the fluid by loosening the screws on the transmission pan. The reservoir pan take place anywhere in the room three or four at most 10 or more, depending on the vehicle to have a big pot to make the liquid. Then loosen each pan bolt a turn or two and loosen one corner more than the rest to the pan hanging on one side over the other. Drain on everything from this corner.
2. Once most of the oil has drained from the pan, finish removing the pan and any gasket material from the box and transmission pan. Avoid scratching the metal and make sure the surface of the tray board is not bent or distorted.
3. Remove the old filter. Most transmission filters are held in place with a screw or two, but some are held by a clip. Be careful to include O-rings or other seals that can be transmitted in particular have.
4. Install a new filter. Use clamps or bolts from the old filter. Make sure the O-rings, etc are in place. If the filter has a long neck product, gently push the neck into place without overthrowing the O-ring.
5. Clean the mold carefully. Inspect the pan before cleaning. A small amount of fine gray clutch dust is normal, however, if you find metal shavings, there has been transmission damage ... Wipe pan clean with solvent and wipe dry so there are no harmful residues. Some transmissions have a magnet stuck to the bottom inside of pan to catch fine metallic particles of transmission fluid. Clean the magnet with a clean cloth and replace it in the same place he found it in the pan.
6. Place the new gasket on the pan. Some gaskets have four holes slightly smaller than the rest to allow four bolts through pan and through these smaller holes to locate and maintain the gasket in place.
7. Pan-tighten the screws in a crisscross pattern. After that, use a torque wrench to tighten bolts to proper ft-lbs according to the manufacturer.
8. Refill the transmission using only the amount stated as "the ability to charge" user's manual, using the liquid type specified for the vehicle.
9. If you make only a partial fluid replacement, (pots) to enter the instruction below 12. In case of a complete fluid replacement, follow the steps in instruction 10.
10. Now they have replaced the liquid in pot. To replace the fluid in the torque converter and oil cooler also, follow these steps.
* Step 1. Get the total system capacity by the manufacturer or vehicle owner's manual. Have this amount available.
* Step 2. Disconnect the oil cooler line oil cooler. As you may not know which side of pressure and that is the return side, have turned so the fluid stream is directed to an electrical outlet.
* Step 3. With another person, be prepared to add ATF to the fill area, as is being pumped out of the oil cooler line.
* Step 4. Start the engine and as the old fluid is pumped out, add fresh liquid to pan.
* Step 5. When the brightness of the color of the liquid or the total capacity has been replaced, turn off the engine and reconnect the oil cooler line. All fluids have been changed.
11. Recheck the fluid level. With vehicle on level ground, set the parking brake and the transmission in "Park" or "neutral." Let the engine idle for a few minutes. Shift the transmission into different positions before returning to the "Park" or "neutral." Check the fluid level again and check for leaks and you're done!

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