Hello,

I am working on my 05 evo 8. Replacing the transmission fluid at 36k miles (1st change at 7k miles).

I'm replacing the fluid with Amsoil MTG GL-4.

I got around 2.68 quarts of tranny fluid in the transmission, before it started leaking out the fill-hole. This leaves me 0.32 quarts of fluid in the container! I'm worried that I don't have enough fluid in, but any more I put in just leaks out.

I've jacked the car on 4 jack stands before I drained the fluids & started filling Amsoil. Didn't touch the jack stand heights or anything thereafter. The car seems visually very level to the concrete flooring of my garage.

Any ideas? Is a strict 2.9 quarts 'required' in the transmission? Or 2.68 quarts = OK?

I don't want to start and drive my evo to find out I have less fluid!

Thanks in advance,

RevMatcher

 

There is probably a good bit of fluid left in the transmission after draining that will not drain without some sort of ninja draining technique.

 

+1

There is still the old oil inside along with residual oil on the gearing. Since you made the switch to amsoil, I would change the oil again in under 10k to flush out all remnants of the previous oil.

 

OK. I found a slight difference in jack heights between the front and the back. I jacked the car in front just a bit, and was able to put in a little more oil in the tranny. Very little.

When I proceeded to clean the area around the drain & fill plugs, I found some oil at the rim of the black plate (bolted with 6 hex capscrews)
http://www.evogarage.net/wiki/index....uidchange2.jpg
The cast tranny case area around the black plate also looked 'wet' with oil.

I am assuming this is some oil that overflowed from from the fill plug, and as it drained down to mother earth, found the black rim, and proceeded to surround the black plate from all sides.

Correct assumption?

Any known cases where Amsoil leaks from the black plate or other joints?

I need to cover my bases.

Thanks in advance.

 

Update:

I cleaned up the area around the black plate. Doesn't seem like a leak now. It was definitely some spillover that spread around.

I got the transfer case oil change done as well. I've stuck to OEM Diaqueen for the diffs. I have yet to do the rear diff change. Mostly next weekend.

The shifter is a lot smoother now. I've read posts here that it becomes 'as smooth as butter'. It's nothing of the sort. Yet. For me, smooth as butter, is a S2k shifter. Or even any of the Hondas. Those are really butter-like smooth. (although useless when you really want to drive performance, they're all over the place then).

In any case, I'm happy with the change.

There was a significant amount of metal shavings stuck to the magnetic drain plug of the transmission. I have some sweet snaps of them. Will upload in a while for viewing pleasure. :-)


Later,

RevMatcher.

 

that is about right, the tranny won't take 3 full quarts
its about what you came up with

 

I finally got my pictures up. Would like to share them with everyone.

My workspace...


Oil drain...


Oil drain...


Drain plug...


Lots of metal stuck to it...




Job Done!