Motor Oil and ATF change. (UPDATE 01.28.06)

[DrakkkarDarkbladE]

I was reading the post here and a alot of you guys are doing flushes for the tranny. With my other car the tranny flush was a big no no, it was know to ruin the tranny.

I have always used Royal Purple synthetic oil in my other car.

Is it really that much better to get and flush?

How much oil will I have to buy to get a tranny flush?
How many quarts does the engine take?

[Yanks0114]

the v6 takes 4.5qts

Tranny flush will yield smoother shifting and extend the life of the tranny. If you drive really hard, get a tranny cooler, do a flush and then refill with synthetic

[Strider327]

A tranny flush takes much more than 4.5 quarts. That's only for a drain and fill. To flush the tranny would require you to go to the dealer or jiffy lube to get it done. They use machines to power flush the old fluid out. Costs around 120-140. Dealer usually is around 140 Jiffy Lube is about 110. Power flushing the tranny is a MUST! If you haven't done a tranny job for a while you might need to change the transmission filter as well.

Good Luck
Calvin

[CASTRO]

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power flushing is not a must.

IF you want to make sure your tranny and torque converter is spotless clean, learn to do it yourself. IT you can change engine oil, the tranny is no different. The pan+hex bolt on the driver side is where it is at. Un do the hex bolt to let loose a good 3-3.5qt of ATF oil. The tranny + torque converter holds a total of 12qts. I used the drain and fill method about 3-4 times to make sure that all the gunk was out. At Jiffylube, the machine pours new fluid in, and sucks old out at the same time. IT is not enough since the torque converter never really gets hot/exchanges all the oils while idling. I did a drain and fill every week for 3 weeks. May sound like hard work, but I felt it was necessary especially since I used Mobile1 Full Synthetic vs. Generic crap they have at jiffy lube.

[DrakkkarDarkbladE]

How many quarts for the motor oil?

Does anyone have pics of this?

[StockSolara]

How many quarts for the motor oil?

Does anyone have pics of this?

Pictures of what?

V6 Engine takes 5 quarts w/ oil filter and 4.8 w/o oil filter. . . I was wondering how you been using Royal Purple and not know how much oil to put in?

[DrakkkarDarkbladE]

I have been using royal purple on my other car I just got the solara and its missing the users manual that is why I asked about the capacities.

Pictures of what hex bolt to unscrew to let the tranny oil flow out. I am gonna do what CASTRO recommended:

I used the drain and fill method about 3-4 times to make sure that all the gunk was out. At Jiffylube, the machine pours new fluid in, and sucks old out at the same time. IT is not enough since the torque converter never really gets hot/exchanges all the oils while idling. I did a drain and fill every week for 3 weeks. May sound like hard work, but I felt it was necessary especially since I used Mobile1 Full Synthetic vs. Generic crap they have at jiffy lube.

I did that when I switched my other car to synthetic fluids for both engine and transmission.

[CASTRO]

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to make things easier, just do what I do. Go to walmart and pick up a 5qt jug of the oil of your choice. They finally started stocking Mobile1 Full Synthetic for about 20 bucks each. I personally love these as I use the container for used oil once I am done. It is as easy as drain engine oil, change filter and dump entire jug into engine.

For Tranny, same thing, but take off the hex-bolt instead. You will get approx 3qts out of the drain. Put the plug back in and fill through the dipstick (red handle) using a narrow funnel.

[Yanks0114]

A tranny flush takes much more than 4.5 quarts.

I was referring to an oil change.

A full tranny flush uses over 10qts (around 12 i believe)

[DrakkkarDarkbladE]

Changed the engine oil to royal purple with a k&n oil filter. What a frigging difference.

Will try to do the tranny as soon as possible.

Damn Royal Purple MAX ATF is god damn expensive 12 quarts is 92 bucks!!!!

[StockSolara]

Changed the engine oil to royal purple with a k&n oil filter. What a frigging difference.

Will try to do the tranny as soon as possible.

Damn Royal Purple MAX ATF is gee willigers expensive 12 quarts is 92 bucks!!!!

Remember when you change the transmission oil you have to make sure you drive the car before or else when you do it cold most of the fluid will not come out

[DrakkkarDarkbladE]

For the past 3 weeks i have been just doing oil changes on the tranny using the hex bold to flush it out. Finally today i actaully took down the pan and changed the strainer and washed the pan and magnets.

It was not that difficult I thought it would be much harder to do. I did not run into any complications and it took me about 2 hours to the whole thing.

I have never used royal MAX ATF. It made a noticible difference, it even better then the Toyota type IV ATF (which is what i was using to do the flush).

Overall I can say that from now on I will only be using Royal Purple fluids (This crap is damn near imposible to get no one sells it and I had to order it online from a store in California).

[SleeperSolara]

I use Castrol GTX oil and Bosch oil fiter.
And i have Royal Purple for the tranny.
And i also have tranny cooler.
Made my custom own plumbin' for the tranny cooler.

[Hsakuragi]

AHEM...

OIL change = 5 QTS

If you do a drain and refill on every 30k, the tranny does not need to be flush...to me

[Jai_Jai_Binks]

^^ some people insist on tranny flushing, some people believe on drain and fill. I believe flushing at 60K and again at 120Kmiles (and drain and fill at 30&90K miles) from thereon, i'd only drain and fill. But to each his own.