Transmission Gear Oil??

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Old 09-24-2007 | 02:42 PM
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Transmission Gear Oil??

I bought some Lucas gear oil for my car, get under, and I could not find anything that looked like a drain plug. Ive done this change before in many Hondas and Toyotas and you can always tell.
Does anyone know which one is the Drain Plug and which one is the Fill Plug??
And if you have a pic it would be really appreciated. Thanks.
Old 09-24-2007 | 03:25 PM
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IIRC the drain plug looks like the head of a ratchet with out a socket on it.
It might be the 1/2" Ratchet size. It's been a while, but I think thats how I did it.
Use the ratchet and unscrew the plug and so forth.
Old 09-24-2007 | 04:19 PM
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look for two plugs on the side of the transmission, the lower one is to drain and the upper one is to fill.
Old 09-24-2007 | 07:31 PM
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ahh thank you guys
Old 09-24-2007 | 10:36 PM
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the drain plug is DIRECTLY on the bottom, and yes it is a hole that a 1/2 inch ratchet (without a socket) fits into. The fill plug is on the passenger side (i think) but it is easier to fill through the shifter.
Old 09-24-2007 | 11:14 PM
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The fill plug is on the driver side on S13's and it takes a wrench (Not sure which size ) like ryguy said it's easier to fill through the shifter though
Old 09-25-2007 | 05:10 AM
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you wanna use an adjustable wrench on the fill plug, a regular wrench will ruin your day.

its easier to fill though the shifter


and the drain plug is a sqaure female bolt that requires a 1/2 drive breaker bar to get open if it has not been opened in a long time.

make sure its not sythetic gear oil, and if its Gl 3 or 4 its better but dont worry about the GL5 myth i busted that.

2 bottles and one half
Old 09-25-2007 | 05:55 AM
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why not synthetic in the tranny? i was gona buy royal purple gear oil for my sr tranny but i dunno now
Old 09-25-2007 | 05:58 AM
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well royal purple in such is fine . but dont use vavoline type synthetics. they contain alot of additives and like adding syn oil to a high milage motor, seals with be exposed and things will break down.
Old 09-26-2007 | 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Biggamehit
you wanna use an adjustable wrench on the fill plug, a regular wrench will ruin your day.

its easier to fill though the shifter

i second that. as long as u have the right pliers, if not.. its a *****

and i used mobile 1 in my tranny.
Old 09-26-2007 | 10:02 PM
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ps make your day easy and fill through the shifter
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