install from top or bottom and if bottom do i need a funnel / 87 rx7 se 5 speed/ and when can i tell if its full

 

Uh, is this a trick question?
Are you trying to fill the tranny upside-down?



-Ted

 

Your car is an 87 N/A, so you will fill it from the access hole on the Drivers side of the tranny. Square head threaded plug. You will put approx 2.7 qts into the tranny, and rule of thumb is you fill the tranny untill it starts leaking out of the hole.

Maybe time to get a Haynes manual or something?

 

 

Go to Home Depot and get three feet of clear hose. Put one end in the filler hole in the transmission. Insert the nozzle of your choice of tranny lube in the other end and let gravity take it's course. Like J-Rat said it will take 2.7 quarts or until it starts to dribble out of the filler hole. Of course you do have to keep the car level.

 

Unless you have a pump or a seringe, this is really a long job to get those 2,7 QTS of thick oil into a tube that's thin enough to fit in the filling hole

 

I personally went to Checkers and got the pump.

 

fill from the top square plug, BUY A PUMP it takes forever even with it.... i hate gear oil smells horable

ohh yeah FYI, make sure you install the driveshaft first.. or fluid will gush out of there!

heres another good question to be brought up

what weight/brand of gear oil do you guys use?? or recomend??

 

It is not. 15/16 in. hose. I did it while changing spark plugs.

 

Well maybe because i'm using synthetic stuff used in trucks... This stuff cold is almost like molasse

my cousin is a really knowledgeable mechanic and said this stuff outclassed the other tranny fluids/oils and other **** . I must admit that he's right, my tranny is sooooooo smooth...

 

LOL, send me 2.7 quarts please.

 

I am running GM synchromesh, which is like 30 weight oil. ITs the only way I can get that ragged out tranny to shift anymore...

 

What brand? There's several synthetics out there and I'm sure theyre not all the same.

 

you don't really need to do the pump method, what i find works good is let gravity do the job for you.

get some good diameter hose long enough to go from the fill hole up to the engine bay, then just get a funnel and fill. usually takes about 15 minutes.
oh, and whatever you do make sure it's not freezing outside, it makes the oil thicker. but i guess most of you americans don't have to worry about that

- Aaron

PS: best advice i can give is make sure you can get the freaking fill plug out first BEFORE you take the drain plug out, lol

 

Umm, isn't that what I said?

 

i just bought 3 quarts of redline 75w90 at 8bucks a quart, i was gonna use my pump that i use to fill the air mattress with im thinkin in my situation gravity sounds a little easier

 

true enough!

lol, sometimes i just don't read. but hey, if more than one person says it that means it must be right!

 

Hope it also said MT-90 on the front, otherwise you are using HP GL-5 gear oil in your tranny.

 

hmmmm good question better give them a call!!!!!lol damnit...
turns out they ordered the hp gl-5 instead of the mt-90 tranny fluid,, thanks so much for that save,lol....smoother shifts here i come!!!

 

well filled it up and the car is moving again after 4 months whoooooooooo the 7 cant lose.

 

I don't know about the S4 but the S5 Owners Manual, Haynes Manual, and FSM all specify GL-5 grade gear oil for manual trannies.