How did you re-fill your T56 trannie fluid?
07-28-2003, 08:05 AM
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How did you re-fill your T56 trannie fluid? Just want to see how you did it, maybe get some ideas since it took me 30 long minutes under the car. Not including the cleanup time for the gush of fluid when I drained it 
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07-28-2003, 09:04 AM
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Re: How did you re-fill your T56 trannie fluid? Take about 10' of plastic tubing just big enough to fill up the fill hole in the tranny. Stick one end in the fill hole and then snake the other end up to the engine compartment. Then, using a funnel, pour your tranny fluid down the tube and into the tranny.
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Re: How did you re-fill your T56 trannie fluid? minivette's way sounds pretty good...i myself used a squeeze bottle that had like a straw at the bottom, and it pertruded to the end of the bottle. i stuck a plastic tube around it and stuck it into the fill hole...took about 10 min or so cause the bottle was small and i had to keep refilling it. u could also use a pump of some sort. good luck
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Re: How did you re-fill your T56 trannie fluid? I bought a little gizmo at Pep Boys designed for putting oil into a marine engine or something. It is a pump that you put on the bottle and just pump the fluid out. Basically you take the screw on cap off of your bottle, put the pump on the bottle, and take the hose from the pump and insert it into wherever you are putting the fluid. Then just pump it in. Doesn't make a mess either, and it can be used on rears too 
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Re: How did you re-fill your T56 trannie fluid?
I just fill through the shifter. It's simple remove it pour in 4.5qts. reinstall.
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07-29-2003, 07:27 AM
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Re: How did you re-fill your T56 trannie fluid? I've filled them throught the shifter (also works on T-5's) if I have it apart. Or I bought a Gear Lube Pump that screws onto the bottle and pumps the oil through a hose....10 minute oil change (it's like the big pump on a bottle of Go-Jo hand cleaner). Works great, cost about $6.00 and you stay clean....
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Re: How did you re-fill your T56 trannie fluid? I bought a $5 plastic pump at Sears. It just plugs into the fill hole. You stock a tube in the bottle and start pumping. Works good. Saw the same thing at O'reilly's too.
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Re: How did you re-fill your T56 trannie fluid? Take out the fill plug in the tranny, then fill it thru the shifter. I poured in 4 quarts, and it spilled out of the fill plug a bit, so it has to be slightly less than 4 quarts. IIRC, it's 3.8
