'03 Expy 5.4 - Does it have a tranny drain plug
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'03 Expy 5.4 - Does it have a tranny drain plug
My truck is not at my house and I was going to prepare some maintenance items and one being chaning the tranny fluid. I don't want to do a flush as I have heard they could cause more harm than good sometimes and wanted to just drain the pan and then remover the cooler lines to get it out of the torque converter. Does the Expy have a drain plug on the transmission pan? tks
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I figure the pan holds 4-5 qts. If I drain this(through plug I hope) can I drive it a short while just to get more fluid in the pan and drain again. I would hope to get 4-5 qts more out but don't know if this would work. I could then add 8-10 qts of new fluid. tks
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"just do the flush your plan will burn your trans"
Fordtech08 is right, don't drive with out proper fluid level. You can still drain the pan and you can drain your torque converter and it will take most of the fluid. Not sure if your tran have drain plug and torqe converter plug.
I did trans fluid not too long ago on my 00 Nav and so far so good. I drop the pain, put new filter in, cleaned the pan, and refill the tranny to proper level. Mine took lillte more 7 quarter and yet i didn't drain the torqe converter.
I didn't change the whole fluid because I want to see how new fluid work with my trans and if there will be any issue down on the road i am not touching it again.
Jamal
Fordtech08 is right, don't drive with out proper fluid level. You can still drain the pan and you can drain your torque converter and it will take most of the fluid. Not sure if your tran have drain plug and torqe converter plug.
I did trans fluid not too long ago on my 00 Nav and so far so good. I drop the pain, put new filter in, cleaned the pan, and refill the tranny to proper level. Mine took lillte more 7 quarter and yet i didn't drain the torqe converter.
I didn't change the whole fluid because I want to see how new fluid work with my trans and if there will be any issue down on the road i am not touching it again.
Jamal
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Draining the fluid is only part of the maintenance, the other part is cleaning the filter. The drain plug will help contain the fluid, but to do a true service you need to clean/change the filter too. I have always gone to a shop to have it power flushed, my thought is that it gets more old fluid out. I think it is an urban legend that the power flush causes problems. I've driven around 600k miles in ym life time and always done power flushes at or slightly ahead of the suggested intervals. Never had a tranny issue. I think the people who claim they have had tranny failures because of it were probably doing it as a last ditch effort to try and save a tranny they destroyed.
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Trans Fluid Change
All fords that I ever changed had / have a torque converter drain plug on them, and Item that GM vehicles do not have. This is why the flush was invented. I don't see how you could ever get all the old fluid out by flushing. I remove the pan, if you start with the bolts at the rear and work your way toward the engine you can drain the pan while removing it. After the pan is totally removed you can remove the filter by gently pulling it off. Some older transmissions used a bolt to hold it in. Newer ones are just held tight with a seal on the tube that slides into the tranny. I have done this without getting fluid on me MOST the time. You also drain the torque converter by removing the rubber plug at the bottom of the bell housing and rotating the engine (with a wrench on the harmonic balancer bolt ). This will remove 12 of the 13 quarts. If you want to get the last quart you remove the bottom transmission line from the radiator and let it drain. On all 1996 and newer ford vehicles you need to use MERCON V which is a semi synthetic fluid even if the manual says to use a lesser grade. By the way I just did this last weekend. PS the vehicle will generally not move if its more than two quarts low on fluid and attempting to do so will ruin the clutches.
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WOJO
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ah so you do know the answer then I looked at the shop manual and noticed the same thing it gives directions for replace the trans fluid 3 different ways one with and one with out the drain plug the third and ford approved way of using the flush machine