Thread 28583802

This shit is 946ml but the manual is asking for 2.0lt (buying two jugs). What happens if you underfill transmission fluid by the equivalent of 0.1 qt?

>>28583802 (OP)
you should be completely fine
that said I would just buy 3 bottles then use the 3rd bottle over the life of the car to prove the extra .1l

I don't know anything about auto trannies but it's fine for manual. Usually you check the level by sticking your finger into the check hole which isn't that accurate anyway. I would buy another bottle though just in case, gear oil is pretty cheap.

>>28583802 (OP)
stop being a zionist. fill the tranny to the brim.

>>28583802 (OP)
2L is probably a dry fill, 2 quarts should be fine but I would buy 3 to be safe.

I bought a used car a few years ago and went to change the transmission fluid. Calls for around 70oz of fluid and I only drained 28oz out. Still drives fine now.

>>28583802 (OP)
does your transmission not have a fucking dipstick?

>>28583854
I had that happen too but the transmission actually shifts better and into the powerband now. I didn’t know that it was low on fluid but it really does shift better when everything is up to the fluid level.

>>28583802 (OP)
Just top it off with some of the old shit if you're a little off.

>>28583872
I don't know, this is my first manual car so I literally never even looked at transmission and differential and transfer case fluids

>>28583924
The car is still filled with factory / break-in fluid, from what I've read it's probably filled with metal shavings and not worth the risk

>>28583929
Just do what >>28583807 said and get an extra jug. It's also useful for topoffs if your car burns a bit of oil (very common for new cars, especially ones with FI engines)

>>28583929
Unless you drain and fill that thing 5 times there's still going to be some metal shavings in there. Some trace shavings aren't going to hurt a manual tranny.

>>28583925
Okay, little protip my friend
Your transmission has a dipstick. Google
[Your car] transmission dipstick, or just look around the engine bay for one.

>>28583802 (OP)
Keep filling the transmission untill fluid comes our of the fill port.
I doubt you can get 2 quarts in unless the trans is brand new.
Power Fill tools makes it easy.

>>28583941
>Your transmission has a dipstick
I've never owned a manual transmission that had a dipstick.

>>28583872
You dumbfuck.

>>28584006
>>28583949
Oh boy, it's another episode of
>/o/ doesn't actually know how to wrench

>>28583854
Half the transmission fluid is in the torque converter.
It has its own drain plug.

>>28584014
Nice automatic bro.
Anyways, I've owned 5 manual cars.
Not a single dipstick on any of them.

I've built race cars from scratch.
Built tube chassis
Wired entire cars from scratch.
Designed my own suspension.
Welded up my own floater axle.
Assembled my own brake kits from old NASCAR calipers.
Only thing I've never done was rebuilt was an automatic transmission.
Because I don't own any.

>>28584148
Bazed

>>28584148
>Nice automatic bro.
Fucking retard

Should I put 0w-16 engine oil in my manual trans?
It calls for Dex III atf. 0w-16 is very similar in viscosity and should be more protective.

>>28584164
>Calls others retarded
>Hasn't built a car from scratch
Anon.......

nah you don't even get a (you).

>>28584166
Just use the right fluid...

>>28584218
But what is "the right fluid"?
I doubt it's dex III. Factories just use ATF because it works well enough, and they don't have to inventory a separate fluid for the 1 in 500 MT cars they sell.

>>28584226
Read your service manual.

>>28584230
You are a robot. Don't reply to me.

>>28584246
What the fuck answer are you looking for, moron?
Fill your fluids with the fluids the service manual for your car tell you to. It's that simple. Holy shit

>>28584166
lol yeah go ahead, see what happens.

>>28584226
You can use whatever oil really, it doesn't matter.
I put slideway lubricant into my engine and it works just fine.

>>28584014
poobaroos are probably the only manual gearboxes I've seen that have dipsticks, never seen it on anything else

>>28583802 (OP)
Tell me you drive a Hyundai N without telling me. Two bottles is perfectly fine for like 24 months then needs replacing. The stock fluid in those is a joke

>>28584164
>he put a manual shifter on an automatic
that's fucking rough

Just make up the difference with water. It will lather up the oil and clean your internal parts better like washing your hands in the sink with soap.
Don't listen to /o/, they never know anything.
>t. mr lube tech

>>28584375
>slideway lubricant
Based, i picked up 5hp doing this on my miata thanks to the superior friction modifiers in slideway oil, it's a super old boomer trick that actual works.

>>28584014
Yes, anon, Subaru was based for putting a dipstick in the Forester. But that doesn't mean every other car has one. Quit being a FAGGOT because your outlier defies the norm.

>>28584660
The main issue with slideway oil is that it gels up incredibly fast in the cold.
I used a gallon of slideway oil in my trugg because the fucker burned through everything else I had on hand, worked well enough until the weather went below freezing.
I also poured it straight into the tank and used it as fuel.

>>28583939
>transmission burning oil
anon....

>>28583929
you will always find some metal on the magnets. its fine.

>>28584014
c635 manual doesnt have a dipstick. it had a rubber plug that you pop out and if the fluid isnt at the top of the hole ,you are low on fluid.

>>28584166
no, the conditioners in motor oil are not the same as trans fluid.

>>28583802 (OP)
just put some of the old oil back in it to reach the fill line...

>>28584739
This

Just buy the extra quart op, yes 90% of it will go unused, but do fill to spec. Usually they say to fill until it starts to leak out from the fill plug.
At best you'll have some left over oil for other things

And if you are buying that super expensive redline oil, if your really frugal, you can top off with cheaper oil. Don't use old oil, it's gonna be full of metal and your just contaminating your nice new oil.

>>28584622
Doesn't get more sad than that.

>>28584677
Anon that's not a forester...

>>28584798
redline isn't even expensive, its $22 a quart lol. oem oil goes for what, $10-15 a quart?

expensive stuff is anything with a foreign name like motul or lubrimoly

>>28584966
>It's only $22/quart, unlike the expensive motul, which is..
>$12/qt

>>28585078
Different brands have different additives. Show motul out performing redline and also motul doesnt make a fluid for all cars. My options were redline or mopar MTF

>>28585416
Pour in half a quart of the new fluid, and rotate the transmission by hand or at idle with the drive wheels in the air, and then let it drain for 20 minutes. Sorta like a flush.

>>28584365
I've used 5w-30 in a different transmission. Didn't instantly explode, but the shifting didn't feel as good as it does with my usual oil.

>>28585416
I think you missed the point of my post or quoted the wrong person.
Anon said
>>28584966
>redline isn't even expensive, its $22 a quart lol.
>expensive stuff is anything with a foreign name like motul

When motul is literally half the price of redline.

>>28584014
i don't think i've ever seen toyota put a dipstick on their manuals. it's always just been
>fill until oil reaches within 5 mm of the filler hole
>>28585567
redline definitely isn't cheap, but i love their mt90 oil. made the shifts in my w58 slightly but noticeably smoother compared to the oem gl4 oil.