4l60e dipstick reading
4l60e dipstick reading So when the vehicle is hot, and nothing is on the dipstick does it read the same as an oil dipstick? needing atleast 2 quarts?
Im just trying to figure out where I stand right now and I cant find any info on reading the dipstick apart from cold, warm, hot. If its hot and nothing is on the dipstick id like to know if that means it needs a quart...2 quarts?
If anyone knows it would be useful to know. Just good general knowledge.
Im just trying to figure out where I stand right now and I cant find any info on reading the dipstick apart from cold, warm, hot. If its hot and nothing is on the dipstick id like to know if that means it needs a quart...2 quarts?
If anyone knows it would be useful to know. Just good general knowledge.
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From: Turnin' Wrenches Infractions: 005
No, its the opposite. When an engine is hot the oil is still up in the top of the engine, so the level will appear slightly lower then actual. When a transmission is hot the oil expands, making the level appear to go up. You have a cold warm and hot reading area on the dipstick.
Right, I know there's cold warm and hot readings
if you are doing a hot reading and nothing is on the dipstick, do you start with 2 quarts, or pints, as said?
a completely cold, not ran for a day, dipstick should read way high if you pull it without the car running right? ( Fluid drains from converter). Then you start it and the converter sucks up what drains and that gives you the lower cold reading, and hot it has expanded making it read higher, correct?
if you are doing a hot reading and nothing is on the dipstick, do you start with 2 quarts, or pints, as said?
a completely cold, not ran for a day, dipstick should read way high if you pull it without the car running right? ( Fluid drains from converter). Then you start it and the converter sucks up what drains and that gives you the lower cold reading, and hot it has expanded making it read higher, correct?
Take a look around. Think about adding too much. How will you get it out?
Yea, you get a long hose and suck it out through the tube. A transmission shouldn't be run overfilled, an engine can to a point. But of you overfill an engine you can just pull the plug and drain it, easy.
The point is go a pint or two at a time as said.
And a tip: let it sit 5 minutes running or not before you check it again. When you add fluid and check it you're scraping fluid out of the tube and you get a false high reading.
Yea, you get a long hose and suck it out through the tube. A transmission shouldn't be run overfilled, an engine can to a point. But of you overfill an engine you can just pull the plug and drain it, easy.
The point is go a pint or two at a time as said.
And a tip: let it sit 5 minutes running or not before you check it again. When you add fluid and check it you're scraping fluid out of the tube and you get a false high reading.
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Try overfilling a th400. A lot of times it'll blow it out through the dipstick tube. And usually hit the exhaust and catch on fire. But yea you're right, too much fluid won't hurt the trans the fire will.
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IIRC you check while the engine's running at operating temp, not when the engines off fwiw. i'd say get a quart and slowly pour in bit by bit and check the fluid level via dipstick.
Yea its while running.
The problem with adding it bit by bit on these cars is that you never get another good reading right away, like stated, need to wait around 5 minutes between readings
The problem with adding it bit by bit on these cars is that you never get another good reading right away, like stated, need to wait around 5 minutes between readings
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From: Turnin' Wrenches Infractions: 005
Its recommended to run the 60e a quart over. I do on mine and have for years. It also has a vent tube on the top so it should not blow a dipstick out.
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The issue with running them too full (i don't think one quart over is *too* full by the way...but 2 or 3 definitely is) is that it foams the fluid. Overfull can be just as detrimental as under full.
Personally, I like to run a stamp'd steel deep pan with the plastic "new" deep pan filter. I don't have to run it over-full to band-aid the issue of sucking the sump dry under acceleration and that keeps it from foaming. The added capacity is always nice as well.
Personally, I like to run a stamp'd steel deep pan with the plastic "new" deep pan filter. I don't have to run it over-full to band-aid the issue of sucking the sump dry under acceleration and that keeps it from foaming. The added capacity is always nice as well.
I run my 60e's on the full mark - no problems.
Never said overfilling would hurt it.
Gave an example of when it might hurt something because this thread will be here for 15 years and who knows who is going to read that as a universal statement. 400's have vents too.
Only on the internet can we have 1000 ways to fill a transmission and whats wrong with all 1000. It's a bit rediculious to have such a long thread on adding fluid to a transmission.
Never said overfilling would hurt it.
Gave an example of when it might hurt something because this thread will be here for 15 years and who knows who is going to read that as a universal statement. 400's have vents too.
Only on the internet can we have 1000 ways to fill a transmission and whats wrong with all 1000. It's a bit rediculious to have such a long thread on adding fluid to a transmission.
Hahaha, yes it is rediculous, and noone really knows if a dipstick showing nothing on it when doing reading "hot" means add atleast x amount of fluid lol, but noone will say. We all know what it means on an engine oil dipstick, I was just trying to see if that logic carried over.