Should I get the trans serviced?
08-03-2011, 09:13 PM
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Should I get the trans serviced? I picked up my 2002 Z28 about 2 months ago. It has 85k miles and I am the 4th owner. I honestly have no idea if the transmission has ever been taken care of and next week i will be getting my new yank 3600 ss converter installed so i was just wondering if you reccomend doing the trans service because i heard it could be bad to do this if its never been done before on an old trans. Also, would you reccomend me doing a transcooler.
08-04-2011, 12:04 AM
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I picked up my 2002 Z28 about 2 months ago. It has 85k miles and I am the 4th owner. I honestly have no idea if the transmission has ever been taken care of and next week i will be getting my new yank 3600 ss converter installed so i was just wondering if you reccomend doing the trans service because i heard it could be bad to do this if its never been done before on an old trans. Also, would you reccomend me doing a transcooler.
08-04-2011, 12:06 AM
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Do the job yourself. My trans service was done when I did my stall. I took the trans out, took the old converter out, stood the trans up on its tail to drain all the old fluid I could, filled the new tc with fluid and installed with the trans. I got about 9 qrts new fluid in the trans with new filter. It was done 8k miles ago at 92k and no problems.
If your not doin it yourself just ask them what they can do to get the old fluid out but I wouldnt hook it up to a flush machine. Your probably just gonna have to settle for a pan drop to change 4qrts fluid and filter.
If your not doin it yourself just ask them what they can do to get the old fluid out but I wouldnt hook it up to a flush machine. Your probably just gonna have to settle for a pan drop to change 4qrts fluid and filter.
08-04-2011, 12:11 AM
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Do the job yourself. My trans service was done when I did my stall. I took the trans out, took the old converter out, stood the trans up on its tail to drain all the old fluid I could, filled the new tc with fluid and installed with the trans. I got about 9 qrts new fluid in the trans with new filter. It was done 8k miles ago at 92k and no problems.
If your not doin it yourself just ask them what they can do to get the old fluid out but I wouldnt hook it up to a flush machine. Your probably just gonna have to settle for a pan drop to change 4qrts fluid and filter.
If your not doin it yourself just ask them what they can do to get the old fluid out but I wouldnt hook it up to a flush machine. Your probably just gonna have to settle for a pan drop to change 4qrts fluid and filter.
08-04-2011, 12:16 AM
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Doing it that way there is no way to get all the old out because it gets mixed but its pretty much the best way you can do it and its better than doing just the 4qrts in the pan. Now if your a nut like me and stand the trans to get the fluid out thats even better lol
