Personally I would never work on a vehicle if it's warm/hot especially after my dad (who owns a mechanic shop) had an incident where he opened the radiator cap while the customers vehicle he was working on was still hot and scolding hot coolant exploded and shot up in his face and he suffered severe burns from that.
Yeah, your supposed to check the transmission fluid with the transmission warm and running in park, so its kinda required. Coolant system is a different story.
The video tutorial for these cars is appreciated, But I want to make an observation: You will understand that automatic transmissions have a hydraulic torque converter and its respective oil cooler. Okay. Where do I replace the oil in those devices??? The turbine stores about 4 liters of oil and the lines like the cooler about a liter and a half. By simply draining the oil from the transmission crankcase and putting new oil in, you are going to mix new oil with old, the performance and quality of that oil is compromised. As I understand it, you remove the return hose from the cooler and with the transmission crankcase full it turns on and when you see a change in oil color, you turn off the engine, put the hose in its place and fill the transmission to level, That is a transmission oil change. The problem is with the design of these cooler hoses and how to disassemble them 😵😵😵. GM no longer cares about making cars durable and easy to access for maintenance. But anyway, your video is appreciated.
This has always been the way. Yes, draining the oil doesn't take away all the oil, and if you change it 5 times, there will always be some amount of original oil in the transmission. But...any new oil is better then old oil. I ended up doing 3 oil changes, as it only uses a few quarts, and that is such a significant upgrade to the old oil, you're good. It has been this way since the beginning of automatic transmissions which tells you that you don't have to get all the fluid out to get big improvements.
My wife's 09 equinox just started with the 2 to 3 engine flair the other day. 100,000miles on it... Atf has never been changed. I'm dreading having to do this. I truly really am. Ugh. Hope it fixes the issue
Great video yet I found out my arm is too fat bc you have more room in front of your fan, I have a 2005 and I’m about 2 inches or less from touching it and I’m considering seeing if I can remove my battery and tray holder to get to from opposite side, only bc I’m trying to avoid going under near front bumper to try get motor mount removed! Yet, I’ll get it figured out someway to find access but this a good video. Also the sea foam was this your first time using it ?
My 2007 equinox has 415k miles original trans and it slips from 2nd to 3rd I hate to give up on it it runs like new on the original engine my goal is to get it to half a million may put a trans in it it's a lot cheaper than a car payment
P0797 code with a no start in the same vehicle. Solenoid c stuck on? Would this be worth a shot or change transmission. The trans fluid has never been changed.
I'd drop some coin on a knock off Tech2 scan tool and actuate that solenoid a bunch to see if I could get it back. You can pull the cover (pain) and replace solenoid which I would be inclined to do if I had an outright failure. And change the transmission fluid immediately.
Great video. Thank you! Now i dont have to pay a mechanic to do this for me! Ive had my 2005 for 12 years, and it had 100k miles on it when i got it. Ive doubled the mileage and only had minor issues with it. Most expensive thing ive paid for is tires!
Thank you for spending the time to share your experience with this task. I hadn't thought of approaching it from the angle you did. I was going to remove the motor mount until i saw your video. God Bless
05 to 09 are Toyota transmissions. Engines are assembled in Germany and everything gets put together in Canada. Congratulations on buying an American car lol.
Do this video. Either 2 things will happen. It will fix it and go away. Or Totally blow it up as dirt and such is holding it all together. I typically option the first one. I have heard 60,000 miles is recommended for longest life. I changed mine 3 times to make sure I had most of the old fluid out.
How long did it last after you did this ...mine just started and I've never changed anything in the transmission I'm going to try this before I replace it I real don't want to because you have to drop the hole cradle with the motor so if it gave you time would love to know
Whatever you do, use the T-IV. This is specific for a toyota transmission. If you use something else, you will not be able to drive it for 100 yards. You will have to replace the transmission. ONLY T-IV fluid. It is the same as the Saturn
i have the same equinox bought it new im having trouble with the transmission its slipping basically when the vehicle is hot, in like 2ND and 3rd gear and would slams into gear when i put it in drive... this happen only when the vhicle get hot and driver for over 40 mins i need advise pleseeeeeeeee
@bobgnops there's a tread online about changing your trans valve solenoids with a rostra kit I just did it but haven't added the fluid back in yet to know if I'm fixed but all 3 of us had the same issues ran fine while cold but once it warmed up 30 to 40min later it's started sliping
Von, you came looking for someone to help you with a problem. And yet you want to tell him how you want him to do that for you. You should have just moved along
