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Posted by Will (93 4dsc) on July 21, 2002 at 14:23:53:
In Reply to: Auto Maintenance for Retards, Episode 3. Maybe 4? my tranny oil is changed! posted by mentat on July 20, 2002 at 19:58:42:
: It was not particularly difficult. (All the pros out there are chuckling softly. good job kid, at least you didnt get any in your eyes...) Jeff, your suggestion re: filling thru the speed sensor opening was great. A few things that I noted... in no order really.. : 1. dont use a tiny half inch plastic tube to do the filling. i sat there squeezing that first quart for damn near 20 minutes before it was it. then i immediately went back to the hardware store and got a 3/4" ID tube. also cut the nozzle on the bottle back wider... muuuuuch faster flow, and i wasn't sopping up all the oil that squirted everywhere when the small tube kept popping the f&$k off the damn bottle. : 2. the old fluid STIIIIIIIIIIIIINKS! i dont know if its just me or what, but it really was a nauseating smell, the gross-out factor reinforced by #3... : 3. this is a big DUH, but hey it was my first time. several quarts of fluid sitting over a wee little drain plug hole... sitting there with an appreciable amount of pressure at said hole... mechanical neophyte places catch basin directly under hole. then shrieks in disgust as drainplug is removed, and warm slime shoots nearly a foot from the hole, covering his arm. eww. i felt like Peter Venkman. i know this is a common sense thing, but common sense has never been all that common to me, plus hey it was my first time. : 4. what the hell kind of socket/wrench/whatever is supposed to be used to loosen and remove the filler plug? its just this like 1/2" square hole, maybe a little bigger... i ended up using on of my dads larger ratchets without a socket on it, worked out fine. but i'm curious as to what the proper tool is for that one. : :
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: I have successfully changed my gear oil. This is the first fluid I have actually changed myself, on any car. Nope not even my engine oil, I have had coupons for this place down the street.
: all in all, it ended up taking me a few hours (pros' chuckling turns to guffaws) but that was mainly due to using the smaller tubing and the assorted nightmares that provided me with. it would take me 30 minutes tops were i to do it again. i didnt even close any foreign objects under the hood this time. go me.
: thanks again guys for the advice.
: m@