changing trany oil by syringe

[andyli]

dear all, I am planing to chnage trany oil by a syringe and a plastic tube. do you think it is a good idea. I suck about 1 liter and it is black, how many liters in the transmission? could I change it all by this?

[AirStrike]

Ummm why not just change it like a normal person via the sump?

[xcop5l]

its eayser to drop the auto pan and drain the fliud and change the filter
if its black id sugest to take it to a specialist and get them to do a full flush of the whole auto

[14secvp]

and theres about 12 litres of tranny fluid in there take you a while.

[xcop5l]

you can only get about 4 ltrs out even if you drop the pan imo get it flushed

[cracker]

if its black thats bad, spoze u could but its a good idea to clean the magnet in the pan and clean any **** out of the pan and replace the filter but eh go for it

[Garth]

there are 2 lines at the auto cooler section on the radiator, where the lines come out of the transmistion over to the radiator, and back again.
simply drop one of those lines out, put one end into a bucket, and the other end (radiator end) stick some hose on the end. see which one is the return section and simply pump the oil out with the car running. and stop it once the oil stops comming out.

basicaly the auto will hold around 9 ltrs of oil, but if you do it that way it only drops about 4 ltrs of oil.

if you wanna do a full flush you do the same as above, but put one end into the clean oil, and the other end into one hell of a huge container. and run it till the oil comes out clean

[andyli]

if it is 12 liters I will give up, may be later havea full flush. how much does it cost?

[PaRaDoX]

dude just drop your pan, do a filter and a pangasket.... imo it should be done every time

[immortality]

i'd suggest a full flush job(normally around the $200) if not that at least what garth suggested by dropping the coolant lines, it works, thats how i change the fluid in the missus car. simply dropping the pan and doing the filter is only going do about 4 liters as mentioned above, your still goingto have more bad fluid in there then good and the bad fluid will stuff the new fluid.

[mulligan-can]

Changing the tranny oil with a syringe? Dude that is the most insane thing I have heard in a long while. It would take ages. And all to save yourself the cost of a gasket? Do you value your own time that lowly? Just take everyone elses advice and drop the pan, change the filters and then do what garth said.

Saves you a lot of syringe time lol.