you already asked this in your own thread.

patience is a virtue.

 

Seems like an odd question, i too have a C6 transmission that i am about to change the filter/fluid. If i drain the torque converter, how the heck to i re-fill it?

Am i being a little dull here as if the drain plug is out and facing down it stands to reason there is a fill plug at the top (or you rotate the TC to have the drain at the top) and if i rotate how can i get a tube in there to re-fill.

Don't tell me it takes it's fluid from the main transmission.... If it does i think i'll slit my wrists for being so stupid

 

it takes the fluid from the main transmission.

when filling through the fill tube it distributes itself through the system.

put the razor blade away and live another day.

 

Thanks, it had to be something simple.......

 

Yeah, swap trucks with me.

 

I wouldn't go so far as cutting yourself . Asking the question here saved you a lot of headache of trying to figure out how to pump fluid back into the converter . There's a pump in the transmission that circulates and pressurizes the transmission fluid throughout the system, including the torque converter. All of the fluid is not able to drain back to the pan, which is why the torque converter needs to be drained separately.

 

Managed to get the transmission and also the torque converter fluid changed yesterday, the best part of all is that there was nothing except the ususal grey haze over the bottom of the pan and the internals were wonderfully clean..

It took 10 quarts.... lots of oil

 

torque converter is what bolts to the flywheel on back of motor

 

I know this is an old thread but I'm about to have the very same issue. So I need to rotate the torque converter to make a drain plug point down???? How do I rotate it?

If I drain the pan and drain the plug, should that get all of it out or do I still need to run the thing for a bit?

 

You can buy one of those flywheel turning tools to rotate your motor with or use a 15/16" deep well 1/2" drive socket, a 3 or 4" extension and a ratchet, rotate the engine clockwise by the crankshaft dampner bolt. This is best done from underneath the truck so you can observe the drain plug on the torque converter as you rotate the motor.

 

There is a rubber plug on the bottom of the bellhousing. Pop that out, get a big 1/2" drive socket that fits the big nut on the front of the crank pulley. If you are by yourself, laying on your back, stick your finger in the hole while rotating the engine slowly with the ratchet with your other hand. You will feel it when it comes around.

No, do not let it run.

 

So I should feel a bolt head inside of that hole with my finger? then line it up with the hole the rubber part came out of, and remove it? Does it matter which direction I rotate the crank? clockwise I assume

 

Yes, unless you set up a little mirror to see the bolt. Looks like a pipe plug. Or turn the motor, look in the hole, turn the motor, look in the hole...

 

Ok I just dropped my fluid pan succesfully but now I a not seeing a rubber plug on the bottom of the bell housing to drain the converter???? Can someone please help me out asap?

 

There is not a rubber plug as far as I know. On my tranny there is a dustplate, remove the dustplate and either burp your engine over or turn it by hand until the drain plug on the flexplate is seen then unscrew the plug and WALAH! But thats how it is on my C6 so.. yeah.