This is something very simple to fix but its also a pain when you
go to your friend's house and park at their driveway and leave
some oil marks. Its an embarrassment but this need to be
fix. Otherwise your friend would never want to invite you
back again. This fix can be done for about 30 minutes with
basic tools.
Tools:
- 14 mm wrench
- 10 mm socket
- Razor blade
- De-greaser
Parts:
- Transmission Oil (2.5 quarts)
- Transmission Oil pan gasket
Procedures:
The best way to attach this task it to jack the car up on the
rear driver side with tire chocks in the front tires. Once
the car is jacked up, then u should put in a jack stand for
safety.
The easiest way to loosen the drain and the filler plug is coming
into the car from the center. The first thing is to use a
14 mm wrench and loosen it counter-clock-wise to drain the oil
transmission oil. Once the plug is loosen and the oil is
drained, let it seat for about 15 minutes.
- Now The
Filler Plug should be loosen first for ventilation when the oil
is drained. The first picture below is the Filler Plug and
the last two pictures are Drain Plug with an allen wrench.
(Right Picture Below)
- Now you can use a 10 mm socket to loosen all the screws
holding the transmission oil pan. Hint: Make
sure you have two screw on both sides of the pan so the pan
just don't fall right off. (Left Picture Below)
- Once all the screws are loosen, the oil pan might not
come off. Its best to use a small hammer or mallet
lightly tap the side of the pan to loosen up all the old
grease.
- Once the pan comes off, it most likely will be torn.
Its also a great time to replace the gasket at the same
time.
- When you take out the transmission oil pan, portion of
the dipstick shaft will comes along. Just slightly
give it a pull and it will come off.
- Now you can use a razor blade to scrap out the old/torn
gasket. Make sure you clean out all the residuals
gasket in both the transmission body and the transmission
oil pan
- Once all the debris are off, you can also spray some
de-greaser to clean out the pan and body.
- Once the pan is ready to install, its best to mate the
dipstick shaft first and crew all the those 10 mm back
- Once the pan is stalled and tighten, its time to screw
the drain plug back
- The final inspection on the transmission oil pan is ok,
then its time to fill the transmission oil from the top.
- From my personal experience, 2.5 quarts is about right
but make sure you double check it with the dipstick and have
the engine run for a while and measure it while the engine
is on.
Now you set to go. Best of luck and have fun.
Lex
