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Originally Posted by gookies
Has anyone tried using one of these fluid extractors to drain and fill their transmission fluid? My 4Runner has the transmission dipstick and I believe you have to remove part of the exhaust in order to access the pan, which I'm trying to avoid. Using one of these fluid extractors seem like it would be fine, just wanted another opinion. Thanks.
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I don't think that device will do you any good, you'll only get the fluid out of the pan and you can do that simply by pulling the drain plug on the pan and no reason to pull any of the exhaust apart to do that, you only need to remove part of the exhaust to remove the pan not to get at the drain plug.
That being said just draining the pan will only remove about 1/4 of the fluid because the other 3/4 of the fluid is in the transmission and torque converter, the only way to remove all of the fluid is by doing it via the transmission fluid cooling lines, you can find how to do that in other transmission fluid flush/exchange topics on the forum or you can do several "drain and fills" over time a month or so a part.
Either way you go it will be a bit easier for you since you can refill the fluid via the dipstick tube and you will also be able to check the level with the dipstick, while us without a dipstick have to fill it either by the fill plug on the side of the transmission or via the cooling lines and then check the level by pulling the fluid level check plug.