Changing your fluid is easy- took me less than 10 minutes
1. Â*Jack up the front of the car and put a jack stand under it.
2. Â*Get a 17mm and 24mm socket and a catch pail handy under the car.
3. Â*Undo the fill plug first (17mm) in order to avoid glugging (don't forget the washer!!!).
4. Â*Undo the drain plug (24mm) second and drain all the fluid out. make sure to position the waste pail accordingly.
A NOTE THE 6 SPEED TRANSMISSION USES TWO 10mm ALLEN SOCKETS FOR DRAIN AND FILL.
5. Â*Screw the drain plug in (don't forget the washer!!!) and get a funnel with a long flexible spout (4 bucks from pep boys) and stick in the side of the fill hole.
if you use just the funnel with flex you'll likely have to remove your intake in order to fill from above. if you get some 3/8" rubber hose (about 18" should do) then you can seal off the fill hole (no leaking while filling) AND you don't have to remove the intake!
6. Â*Pour new fluid in until it starts to come out of the drain hole (It is sideways) or around 3 quarts. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS FILL WITH YOUR CAR AT A PERFECTLY FLAT OR A SLIGHT POSITIVE INCLINE (front two wheels off the ground) this overfills the tranny as apposed to underfilling it and keeps things MUCH happier!!! this way it'll take 3 bottles of fluid and there's not guessing if you had too much spill out.
7. Â*Put back fill plug. plugs should only be hand tight, torque specs are good, but don't hamfist them on or you'll be sorry!
DONE!
this is what your fill plug should not look like (dirty)
this is what it should look like (clean)
admittedly these pics aren't helpful.
drain
fill
these are better:
This was really easy and I am kicking myself for not doing it more often after seeing the metal shards on the plug. Â*I used bg synchroshift after getting some info from RRE and robi.
GET 4 QUARTS.
BOLD IS TRINYDEX SPEAKING
here's the SIX SPEED TRANNY PICS
DRAIN
FILL