[V8] checking auto trans fluid level

[Kneale Brownson]

Car should be at full operating temperature=go drive the s**t out of it for
a half hour or more.  Park on a known flat spot.  Check the fluid level.

If it hasn't been done, you probably ought to do the multiple gallon flush.
 That's drain out whatever you get, put in four quarts of fluid.  Drive
some (I tried to make it about 100 miles between sessions), repeat the
draining.  Drive some more and repeat again.  By now you have put in 12
quarts of new fluid.  That's the tranny's capacity.

At 06:07 PM 8/23/2004 -0600, Ed Kellock wrote:
>I googled and I wiki'd and I didn't find the info.  My "new" V8 has
>the trans dipstick.  What is the proper procedure for checking the
>fluid.  I do understand from my research that the trans fluid level is
>very sensitive to temperature so I will procede cautiously.
>
>On  some cars, you shift into drive you shift into reverse then into
>neutral then check the fluid level.  I also understand that idling in
>neutral can be bad for the transmission too.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Ed
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