rev up your engines, today I'm gonna show you how you can change fluid and an
automatic transmission that doesn't have a dipstick and in this case it's even
beyond an automatic transmission it's a CVT transmission and as I said
before sometimes they call this a lifetime fluid and yeah I argued with
the engineers on that all the fluids are good for the lifetime of the
transmission and then they say it's good as long as the transmission is good so I
always ask them well what's the warranty on that
oh well it's 60,000 miles of like hey I expect to get 260,000 miles like in my
Celica their change the fluid don't listen to them it gets dirty needs
changing and a lot of times it isn't as bad as you think
just Jack the driver side up in the air then get an empty drain pan and put it
under the transmission then we get some allen wrenches it's a six millimeter
allen wrench we go under the vehicle and right here is a drain plug should fit
right in amazingly enough it does and since I'm weak as heck so I'm gonna stick
this extension on here giant crescent wrench so I can pull it
off cuz I can be on super tight uh-huh there we go now to come off take that
out of there we don't want to dripping in there and we have to kneel of that
the rest just comes off with fingers and out it come and you're gonna notice
something that not that much drips off there's not much in here and that's because
there's another thing you have to take off inside once this stops dripping you
get your six millimeter allen wrench again put the long end in the hole and
when you feel around there we go there's an insert there we're gonna be
taking that insert out you just keep turning it's generally a plastic piece
so it feels a little weird but you just keep screwing here it come it's coming
and here it goes and now it's draining the main amount out as you can see here there's
the plastic part we just let it all drain then while it's draining we gotta take
the wheel off to get to the add plug or just take it off then you unscrew the
cover and there is the add bolt right there you
take that off that's where your flows back up you just unscrew that and
there's where you pump the fluid back in but before you do that screw this back
in and screw the bottom plug on too.
or it will all drip on the ground we just go
back under the vehicle there's where it's dripping from we just stick this back in
the hole and screw it in place takes a while cause there's quite a bit of
threads just keep screwing it until it's in and then get your drain plug with
the new little gasket so it won't leak and screw that back on and get it nice
and tight and here again we'll use a crescent wrench any Allen ratchet get
nice and tight so it doesn't leak get in of course then wipe all the mess off you
don't want fluid all over the place so we'll wipe the mess of that of course
the big question is how much fluid you put back in well you put in what you
took out so do what I do have an empty quart and pump it in to measure how much is
in here just stick it in there be careful doesn't spill the things
are always messy now we start pumping and measure how much comes out this
one's full there's one quart then empty that in here
recycling then they keep doing it until you see how much fluid came out in this
case it's one quart and twenty four ounces but gets back into the recycling
and we'll put one quart 24 ounces in and be sure you use the right fluid you have
to use the CVT only fluid that's made for these things it's very important and
it's also very important that you change it because as you can see only a small
amount comes out you're getting some of the dirty stuff out I never advise flushing
them you could create problems but if you do this say every 40,000 miles odds
are you're gonna keep any contaminants through damaging the CVT transmissions
which cost a fortune to rebuild now as long as you have a decent pump it's an
easy job you just stick the end in that pumps in it just goes right in, then
the other end over here you stick it in your fluid container stick it right in
there to the bottom so it doesn't suck air to start pumping
then you put the fill plug with a new gasket on the top the bolt the cover
back on so I got two bolts on it your best doing this by hand because they're
plastic inside and if you use a big wrench or something you might strip then,
then put the wheel backon, the let down the car and you're ready to go, after you close
the hood so now you know how to change the transmission fluid in a toyota that
doesn't have a dipstick in this case it was a CVT transmission now all
transmissions generally have little bit differences in how you change them you
can get information on any one that you're working on but the same basic
process works for them all because you want to do it right I've had customers
that went to other mechanics they didn't do it correctly and later they had
transmission problems if you want it done right do the research and do it
yourself like I do, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair
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