when i get a complete fluid drain and flush about 120$service cdn. funds...do they rplace the stock tranny filter??? how bout if theres excessive atfz tranny fluid? is that hurting my already weak tranny? i think they put in too much fluid...reading is way above the 2 notches...thanx if u can rply

 

when i get a complete fluid drain and flush about 120$service cdn. funds...do they rplace the stock tranny filter??? how bout if theres excessive atfz tranny fluid? is that hurting my already weak tranny? i think they put in too much fluid...reading is way above the 2 notches...thanx if u can rply

How many miles do you have on your car? I was going to do a complete tranny flush myself for $150. However, I happened to call the Honda dealer and the service tech. told me that it was just another way of dealerships ripping you off. He said that you really don't need to do a "flush." He said just do a drain and refill every 15K miles and you will be fine. If your fluid is really dirty, I would just keep changing it out every 2-3K miles until it begins to get clean. It costs about $16 to do a drain and refill yourself and it's easier than changing the motor oil!

Our cars don't have a stock tranny filter. The only thing we have is a magnetic oil drain plug in the tranny and when you take that out you'll see how much metal shavings it attracted.

You shouldn't have excessive tranny fluid, or any type of excessive fluid for that matter. To check your fluid, have the engine hot but not running and make sure you parked on a flat surface. If there's too much. Just grab a 3/8" ratchet and put a oil drain pan under your tranny and drain some fluid out. Do a little at a time! And keep checking the fluid level as you go. By the way, I tell everyone this... Please take the used oil to Autozone or Wal-mart to drop off. Don't pour it in the dirt behind your shed in your backyard!

Here is the tranny fluid drain bolt on the v6.

 

That filter looks nasty, btw where is it on a accord?

 

hey.. i was wondering.. where do u fill the tranny fluid from?

 

That filter looks nasty, btw where is it on a accord?

We don't have one, he installed an in-line tranny filter. I have a remote filter and a B&M tranny cooler.

 

hey.. i was wondering.. where do u fill the tranny fluid from?

Under the hood, the bolt says "ATF", towards the driver's side on top of the tranny area.

 

Yeah, if you look right above the tranny dipstick, there is a light bronze colored bolt (it's pretty big bolt) that says "ATF." From the factory they're torqued pretty tight though, so you might want to have a breaker bar handy to open it. I circled it in this pic:

 

wow, that is a lot of metal shavings =(, hey didn't someone also made like a magnet ring thingie around their filter? would that work too?

 

would this filter fit on a 5th gen?

 

thank god for my tranny cooler and filter. whatever happened to my write up?

 

Yeah, this would fit on any car.

Slowaccord01: What magnetic ring?

 

wcbcruzer: some guy on v6p bought magnets then put it onto a metal strip and wrapped it around his tranny filter. I totally forgot about it until you brought up your magnefine tranny filter that has a built in magnet =).

 

yea, I bought that bracket that coudl mount the filter for the transmission cooler. Do you guys suggest sticking a small, but powerful magnet on the filiter?

 

yea, I bought that bracket that coudl mount the filter for the transmission cooler. Do you guys suggest sticking a small, but powerful magnet on the filiter?

that's i'm going to do , bought it online the strongest magnet in the world lol it's called Neodymium-Iron-Boron bought it off this site here:
neodymium magnet

it should work =), since the magnet is super strong dun dun dun

 

hey.. i was wondering.. where do u fill the tranny fluid from?

you can also fill the oil in the whole where the dip stick goes in. the have a narrow funnel to fill tranny fluid with!

 

would you guys recommend this magnefine filter? or the b&m remote filter? which one is better? i'm leaning towards the magnefine because it's got the built in magnet to attract the metal shavings.

 

If you read my first post in this thread, you'll know that I recommend the Magnefine. Perma Cool, B&M, etc. filters are good too. But in my opinion, the Magnefine is just much easier to install, takes up less space, and offers better filtration. But with the Perma-cool, it has a port where you can install a temp. gauge. So it's more convenient.

 

hey wcbcruzer how much did you buy the magnefine for? and where? i found it online for 20 dollars without shipping. *shrugs*

 

I think i'm going to get a k&N filter and add some earth magnets to it. hahaha

 

lol just remember to add a lot of magnets around it

 

hey wcbcruzer how much did you buy the magnefine for? and where? i found it online for 20 dollars without shipping. *shrugs*

Yeah, that's how much it cost me too. I get it from the Magnefine website (emerging enterprises or something...). Or sometimes you can find it on ebay too. Try searching for (volvo power steering filter, or magnefine filter, etc.).

Check out this thread. I added some pics of where I installed my filter (last page).

http://www.v6performance.net/forums/showthread.php?p=755596#post755596

 

yea, i saw that earlier today, searching through v6p =). I'm thinking about buying the magnefine, but i already have the relocated filter mount in place. So i'm going to try the external magnet *shrugs* should work.

edit: and thanks for cutting the filter up lol, at least the filter is doing the job!

 

Nice post. :up2:

 

Mine didnt have nearly as many metal shavings. More like..really tiny specks that formed a sludge.

 

dam i shud get my magnefine filter installed ! its just sitting in my room ...i only go the BM tranny cooler installed(no inline filter) ....just the clogging issue worries me... i shudder to think how much metal shavings i'd get!!!