Trans ISSUE!!!! Need quick advice!

[caladin]

Just pulled my trans pan and filter off. **** trans everywhere! What kind person makes a pan with out a drain plug.

Anyway..

When Im putting the transmission oil filter assembly back on with the bolt and the spacer I noticed the bolt does not go all the way snug with the filter and I can move the filter around on the bolt. Is that correct? No matter how many times I take it out an put it back on it the same?

Funny.. I cant remember when I unbolted it if it was loose like it is now... Followed the TM 9-2320-289-20 page 352 to 355 but it doesn't say.

 

[Dave Kay]

Yes, it is supposed to fit loosely. Just be sure you use the correct, stock spacer and ALSO make sure the plastic tube snaps firmly into the trans housing.

 

[porkysplace]

For about $10 bucks you can get a B & M trans pan drain plug kit , from your local auyo supply .

 

[wreckerman893]

What kind person makes a pan with out a drain plug.

My first guess would some idiot design engineer at General Motors.

 

[319]

Just pulled my trans pan and filter off. **** trans everywhere! What kind person makes a pan with out a drain plug.

Apparently GM never imagined the truck would outlast it's life expectancy long enough for you to get your hands on it. Besides, it would have cost another fifty cents per vehicle to do that.
I know some of those GM engineers, I'll have a talk with them tomorrow.

Okay, now how loose is loose so I know when I change mine?

 

[197thhhc]

Welcome to the wonderful world of GM trannys. I have put many plugs in these pans for easy draining. Gm always told use at the dealership they didnt put plugs in so people would have to remove the pan and then they would replace the filter. Instead of just draining and refilling. I always thought it was because they were cheap skates trying to save a buck. You can do a plug in your stock pan or Summit has a finned pan that has a plug. The fins are good for cooling at higher speeds.

 

[caladin]

Thanks everyone! by the way I see in the faq it says 4Q of fluid... I put in 4 and still show low.. any ideas other then add more?

 

[gvaneck]

I put 4 in mine and it read low, it turned out I had the extra deep tranny pan

 

[camogriz]

Mine took more than five when I refilled it. Keep checking it on level ground and at idle.

 

[MrBouncer]

The thing about the tranny pan, you take it off what every 50,000 miles or so. By the time you needed it, you couldnt use it because it would be seized up. A drain plug would be something to break or leak.

 

[197thhhc]

Make sure you check the fluid when the truck is at full operating temp. trans fluid level really changes with heat.

 

[caladin]

6 quarts when all said and done

 

[firecontrol86]

I was closer to 7 quarts when I did mine. I put the recommended amount in let the tranny get warmed up and added fluid. Repeat. Did that until it read in the hashes on the dipstick at idle.

 

[rnd-motorsports]

The mess the trans fluid makes builds character! besides what fun is it if you cant get dirty once in awhile! LOL

 

[caladin]

The mess the trans fluid makes builds character! besides what fun is it if you cant get dirty once in awhile! LOL

At least I dont have any hair... on my head or it would have been bad

 

[rnd-motorsports]

 

[JDBUCKSAVAGE]

G'day First understand that your turbo 400, one of the best , most durable tranys, takes aprox. 13 quarts to fill when empty including the torque convertor. So, when you service it, you should change the filter DOH as you do when you change your motor oil. Tranny fluid is about 10 weight is subjected to temps way above engine oil and few owners change it at all. They only think engine oil changes, then their tranny takes a dump. So, it would be nice to have a drain plug on the torque convertor so one could change all the tranny oil, times 13 quartes + filter gasket to do it rite.p.s. dont forget to change your differential fluid as soo many NEVER do
JD

 

[86m1028]

both of my 1028's have deep pans & drain plugs

 

[jj]

Never saw a drain plug in a GM automatic until my '02 Savana, the 4L80e HAS a drain plug. So did the Goodwrench remanufactured transmission i put back in. Both plugs were rounded over and siezed. Can't pull 'em anyway! Maybe GM wouldn't be bankrupt today if they hadn't started putting drain plugs in the 4L80 pans? Nah, probably still broke anyway.

 

[JUNKYARDJOHN]

G'day First understand that your turbo 400, one of the best , most durable tranys, takes aprox. 13 quarts to fill when empty including the torque convertor. So, when you service it, you should change the filter DOH as you do when you change your motor oil. Tranny fluid is about 10 weight is subjected to temps way above engine oil and few owners change it at all. They only think engine oil changes, then their tranny takes a dump. So, it would be nice to have a drain plug on the torque convertor so one could change all the tranny oil, times 13 quartes + filter gasket to do it rite.p.s. dont forget to change your differential fluid as soo many NEVER do
JD

Tranny & rearend dope need to be clean also. I like to run a inline remote oil filter on one of my tranny lines, & run a decent trans. temp gage. AMAZINGLY.... I haven't had a tranny take a sh!t on me in over thirty years. They need a little p.m. too. If ya wait till ya see signs of problems... it's ussually too late. John