Welp I followed your directions with using the drain plug as the fill plug and now my transmissions ruined thanks allot genius!! 10 years later and your video still sabotaging transmissions well done
Hi, you are pointing to the drain plug on the pan, the fill and check plug is on the left side of the transmission, if you open the drain plug to check the level you will get quite a steady stream until its empty.
Your info on checking the fluid level is not just wrong but completely crazy. You can't check a "level" from the bottom. The fill plug is on the side of the casing above the pan. That is where the "steady stream" will come from. Also you MUST have the engine RUNNING. Else you will dump half your fluid on the ground, even using the fill plug.
nice, a lot of useful info. Except I still don't understand how do you check the fluid level? my transmission making loud metal to metal clunking when I move the shifter, and it looks like it's leaking from the shifter shaft on the transmission. So I thought maybe there was too much fluid leaked out causing the shifter to start clucking, any input on this?
Hi guys, great video but I was curious of what sort of life typically these transmission run till they need a rebuild? I have a Holden fitted with one of these and am curious.
My transmission is making an extremely loud metal on metal grinding noise and sounds like an angle grinder on sheet metal and metal balls in a washing machine. . There is also alot of burning plastic smell, smoke, and sparks from under the car. Im just gonna keep driving it, gonna hit the toll road today and bring up to about 120MPH and throw it in reverse, just to see what happens.
I'm writing in response to so many negative comments about this video.....this is because majority of you are familiar with BMW fitted with GM or ZF automatic transmission... Used to think that way as well yet owned 2 bmw e39 which I also didn't know they have a different transmission.... Here is the thing.. If you a in south Africa or zimbabwe majority of our bmw are imports from Japan.. Their transmission are manufactured by bmw of Japan which used source them from JATCO... JAPANESE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION COMPANY... JATCO supplies gearboxes to other automotive manufacturers like what GM and ZF does.. These bmw have JATCO JR502E autobox which the Japanese alternative to your GM or ZF..... It does not have the side filler plug like you are used to instead it has both the drain and filler plugs at the bottom.. YES you actually check the ATF level using that bottom hex plug it should spill a bit you also fill using that hex plug... Draining done done using anothe plug just near it.... This gearbox is also used in Nissan skyline cedric and sefiro...the bmw 39 and e34 we have in zimbabwe have this gearbox... Works exactly like the usuall ZF or gm...
WRONG! That is the drain plug NOT the fluid level check point. You check it in Drive from the sight at the back SIDE of the passenger side of the trans (2:00). There’s a sight plug on the side of the trans. Now I don’t trust the rest of the video.
