View Poll Results: To change fluid or not to change
Yes- change tranny fluid
13
86.67%
No- Never touch it
2
13.33%
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Poll: Do you recommend changing transmission fluid?
November 6th, 2009, 2:27 PM
#2
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had mine flushed at 30k mi. will change filter at 50k mi. if someone like me, who only tows on rare occasions, trans temp stays low than recommended change is OK... but if someone is hard on there's towing a lot, racing lot, then change is needed more often depending on what the fluid looks/smells like and how the trans performed
November 6th, 2009, 5:03 PM
#3
I install a drain bolt in the pan of my vehicle's transmission at the first 35K mile transmission filter change.
As it becomes convenient, I try to change the filter and the 6 or eight quarts of fluid which come out of the pan with it every 35K to 45K miles.
Since I've started doing this, all my transmission troubles have magically gone away, for some strange, unexplainable reason.
As it becomes convenient, I try to change the filter and the 6 or eight quarts of fluid which come out of the pan with it every 35K to 45K miles.
Since I've started doing this, all my transmission troubles have magically gone away, for some strange, unexplainable reason.
November 6th, 2009, 8:48 PM
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I do mine every 30K. In times past when I didn't do it I'd burn the fluid and clutch packs up. Now that I change it every 30K the trans have been lasting me a long time 
November 7th, 2009, 4:06 PM
#6
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my 2 cents is. If you buy a vehicle brand new, change the fluid as recommended in the manual, or every 35k-45k like rivereye said. If you buy the vehicle used with over 100k, I'd be worried bout changing it. If it had never been changed before, and you change the fluid, it could cause problems. Don't ask me how it can cause problems, just everytime I've seen it changed for the first time after 100k, problems arose fast, maybe it's just coincidence. And for me when the tranny burns up, gives me an excuse to build it bulletproof. Of course it would burn up at the worst time. i voted to change it, i'm a walking contradiction.
November 8th, 2009, 9:46 AM
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There are horror stories about transmission fluid changes... but those are mostly isolated from what I have seen over my 2 years on the forum.
I say change at regular intervals, even if it has over 100k miles on it.
I say change at regular intervals, even if it has over 100k miles on it.
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November 8th, 2009, 8:32 PM
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I agree on changing, I just did it with a motor change, 150k probably never changed, thankfully I was able to drain converter and renewed both front input and rear tail seals too
as both were leaking.
as both were leaking.
January 19th, 2010, 3:35 PM
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I install a drain bolt in the pan of my vehicle's transmission at the first 35K mile transmission filter change.
As it becomes convenient, I try to change the filter and the 6 or eight quarts of fluid which come out of the pan with it every 35K to 45K miles.
Since I've started doing this, all my transmission troubles have magically gone away, for some strange, unexplainable reason.
As it becomes convenient, I try to change the filter and the 6 or eight quarts of fluid which come out of the pan with it every 35K to 45K miles.
Since I've started doing this, all my transmission troubles have magically gone away, for some strange, unexplainable reason.
Please tell how you did the drain plug. I like the idea but the only thing Is the metal shavings that MIGHT fall into the pan and is caught by the magnet pad!!