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Got the deep transmission pan mod done on The Beast. My buddy, JT's place of work has a lift and he generously allowed me to use it.
New pan on the left. Just a bit of a difference.
It really doesn't affect the ground clearance at all:
The fill procedure is idiotic because they don't give you a dipstick. So you take a pump and fill it through the hole that should have, and is in fact designed to have, a dipstick in it.
Actually, you overfill it.
Then you get the trans up to temperature by alternating between reverse and drive 15 seconds at a time. Then you crawl under the car and remove what looks like a drain plug. It isn't. Inside the pan is a tube that is level with the top of the correct fluid level and when it stops pouring out the hole with the engine running and trans at temperature, you're good.
I'm good!
It got to a peak of 82°C (179.6°F) on the way home and averaged 79°C (174.2°F). I'm happy with these temps in 86°F (30°C) high humidity weather. I can't find where I wrote down what I was getting for temps last year when I took the time to log them.
The old fluid was a bit on the brown side, but still letting light pass through it. No burnt smells. A "normal" amount of stuff stuck to the pan magnet for 168k miles.
I suspect that the fluid has been changed before. It looked too good for 168k miles and a cop car.
Is it supposed to be "lifetime" fluid? I have an aftermarket dipstick for the Aisin transaxle in our Fiat so I can change the fluid as a preventive measure. It's a lot less messy but still awkward.
ReplyDeleteIt is, indeed, a "lifetime" fluid. If you can find it, though, ZF and Aisin, who make their own versions of the 6L80, recommend fluid and filter at 35 to 40 thousand miles.
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