Originally posted by lithium398:
DAMMIT!

I put in about half a quart of new fluid and let it flush out of the bottom. I didnt want to flush too much because of all the stories I hear about flushing old trannys. I plugged it back up, and put in the rest of the 11 quarts I had. So basically I did it the way I figured it had to be done.




If I am reading this correctly... You overfilled your tranny by something like, 7 quarts!! You really need to go outside and drain it!!!

Duratec CD4E's hold about 10 quarts of fluid. When you drained it, you only removed 3.5 quarts - possibly 4 if you lifted the front of the car. Then you added the rest of your 11 quarts, minus the half that you ran through, which by the way did no good. That puts us overfull by 7 quarts!

I am sorry to tell you all this, I really am. Just go outside and take a drain bucket and make a 1 quart mark on the inside. Drain the fluid to the mark, that way you will know exactly how much you removed.

Didn't you check the fluid level after you ran it through the gears?

God, I really hope I read all this wrong.

Phillip Jackson `98 Mystique LS 262K+ and counting... ATX rebuilt @ 151K "This storm has broken me, my only friend!" RIP Dime