04 5AT transmission fluid change?
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Kungfu Panda, those instructions are vague enough to not make any sense. Please elaborate. Do you mean do 2 drain and fills wherein you drive for 10 minutes between drain & fills (that is how Subaru recommends it be done, they recommend 4 drain & fills instead of a flush). Then on the third time open up the pan to change the filter screen, then do a flush? With the drain plug there is no reason to remove the pan and I would not do it very often. The screen does little filtering. That is why I added a Magnefine inline transmission filter on the cooler return line.
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Understood, but technically, you do not replace the pan. You remove it after draining the fluid in order to get at and replace the screen filter. Then re-attach the pan and use a new pan gasket or new form in place RTV silicone gasket. I have not done it on a G so do not know what type gasket is used. I know the engine oil pan uses Gray RTV silicone and suspect the tranny pan is the same.
I do not see the need for two pan drain and fills if doing a flush. All the other instructions state do one drain and fill to get fresh fluid in the pan, then a flush if doing this at home. You would just be diluting the fluid more doing two drain and fills and this fluid is about $10-12 a quart.
I do not see the need for two pan drain and fills if doing a flush. All the other instructions state do one drain and fill to get fresh fluid in the pan, then a flush if doing this at home. You would just be diluting the fluid more doing two drain and fills and this fluid is about $10-12 a quart.
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