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Our Prado is about to click over to 200,000km and is due for a service. I've taken over servicing it myself and it has come time to change to transmission oil. So I decided to take a few pics.
I brought myself stacks of Oil and a filter kit
went underneath (2inch lift makes it a bit easier) and undid the transmission sump pan plug (hole on right of pic) and it emptied out approx. 6 litres
while the oil was draining I removed the dip stick tube bolt which is a 12mm bolt just above the exhaust manifold located on the drivers side cyclinder head
there's approx sixteen 10mm sump bolts to remove (you can see 7 running horizontally top of pic) then you need to break the seal (No - I haven't had any drinks).It seems Toyota has used silicone for the sump gasket so its stuck quite hard on to the trans housing.
when the sump's removed you can see the filter and 4x 10mm bolts fixing it on - in the pic two are grey, two are gold - starting from left to right three horizontal, grey grey gold, then one more gold underneath that.
It's interesting to see first hand how much friction material is in the sump. This one looked quite good compared to some I've seen.
I cleaned it all up including the three magnetics in the sump, put it all back together including a new filter and gasket.
I started filling it with approx 6 litres of fluid
To flush the remainder of the old fluid out, I had two bottles – one empty bottle and one full bottle with fresh fluid in it. I put one hose where the fluid exits into the empty bottle (green garden hose in pic), and another hose dipped into the fresh fluid so the transmission could suck it up. This meant the system would get a thorough flush – I ended up flushing 5 litres through the system (maybe a little more than I would have liked, but hard to watch the fluid and start the engine at the same).
Checked the fluid level and top it up many times until I got it right.
The Prado even seems to be shifting and driving slightly better now.
Cheers
[disclaimer: not a qualified transmission service specialist - as the title suggests it's just the way I did it. If there is a better way, am looking forward to any constructive comments so we can all learn a little bit, as I have from others who have posted DIYs here]
I brought myself stacks of Oil and a filter kit
went underneath (2inch lift makes it a bit easier) and undid the transmission sump pan plug (hole on right of pic) and it emptied out approx. 6 litres
while the oil was draining I removed the dip stick tube bolt which is a 12mm bolt just above the exhaust manifold located on the drivers side cyclinder head
there's approx sixteen 10mm sump bolts to remove (you can see 7 running horizontally top of pic) then you need to break the seal (No - I haven't had any drinks).It seems Toyota has used silicone for the sump gasket so its stuck quite hard on to the trans housing.
when the sump's removed you can see the filter and 4x 10mm bolts fixing it on - in the pic two are grey, two are gold - starting from left to right three horizontal, grey grey gold, then one more gold underneath that.
It's interesting to see first hand how much friction material is in the sump. This one looked quite good compared to some I've seen.
I cleaned it all up including the three magnetics in the sump, put it all back together including a new filter and gasket.
I started filling it with approx 6 litres of fluid
To flush the remainder of the old fluid out, I had two bottles – one empty bottle and one full bottle with fresh fluid in it. I put one hose where the fluid exits into the empty bottle (green garden hose in pic), and another hose dipped into the fresh fluid so the transmission could suck it up. This meant the system would get a thorough flush – I ended up flushing 5 litres through the system (maybe a little more than I would have liked, but hard to watch the fluid and start the engine at the same).
Checked the fluid level and top it up many times until I got it right.
The Prado even seems to be shifting and driving slightly better now.
Cheers
[disclaimer: not a qualified transmission service specialist - as the title suggests it's just the way I did it. If there is a better way, am looking forward to any constructive comments so we can all learn a little bit, as I have from others who have posted DIYs here]
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