tranny over fill ?

[Deigo]

so i talked to my mechanic friend and got the answer: the problem was that i was checking the fluid when it was too warm. atf fluid actually expands when it gets hot hence the gush that came out rather than the trickle. go figure, i never would have guessed that fluid could expand that much ! so lesson learned: let your vx cool down all the way before checking the atf and yeah you gotta love the exact science of checking the fluid levels: is there stuff dripping out? uh yeah. well then it must be good !

[Tornado]

So when you checked it when it was cool, was there a diffrence?

[circmand]

I am not being sarcastic and I have not done it myself yet. But from what I read you fill it by pour tranny fluid in the same hole you check for fullness. it seems to me if you put too much in it would just come right back out. I plan on doing this soon so I would appreciate an answer.

[Ldub]

I am not being sarcastic and I have not done it myself yet. But from what I read you fill it by pour tranny fluid in the same hole you check for fullness. it seems to me if you put too much in it would just come right back out. I plan on doing this soon so I would appreciate an answer.

Overfill is possible if you are filling the tranny while cold...the ATF expands as it comes up to operating temp.

See the chart in post 2 for proper temp & procedure.

[circmand]

It is currently about 123 degrees outside. I will just leave the fluid out in the sun for an hour and it should be good to go

[nfpgasmask]

Yeah, the thing about the tranny is, you need to put 3 or 4 quarts in, run through the gears as per the instructions, and then WHILE THE VX IS STILL RUNNING, fill the tranny with the remaining fluid until it starts to dribble out, THEN you cap it off. Its really not that hard, just messy and hot and you need a helper. Filling the tranny is way easy if you use one of those funnel things from Wal*mart, while one person has one end of the tube in the hole and one person holds the funnel up and pours in the fluid....

Bart