Thread: Tranny Fluid Change - Let Jiffy Lube Do It?
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Old 04-12-2003, 04:02 PM
rwthomas1 rwthomas1 is offline
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On the truck boards some guys are doing a similar flush procedure at home. They disconnect one transmission coolant line and attach a length of hose to the cooler and the disconnected hose. They they place the suction side in a 5gallon pail of fresh atf, the pressure side in any empty pail. Then the engine is started and with the parking brake on, the gear selector is run through the gears for several seconds in each. They have a helper watch the "dirty" fluid coming out into the catch pail and apparently the change to clean fluid is quite obvious, then they shut the engine off. Then the pan is dropped and the filter changed. Long process but it seems to work well virtually guaranteeing that all the fluid is new. Maybe overkill for us. RT
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