NINjaX7

Sorry guys, it's another one of these posts again, but i need some help. I've been doing a lot of replacing and changing fluids lately for the past couple of weeks ever since my radiator cracked. So today i decided to do a tranny oil change because I'm just doing a straight hose from the external cooler into the tranny and I heard that the external cooler has no problem cooling down the fluid and I have an automatic if you guys don't know what i'm talking about. I drained all of the tranny oil and bought some redline ATF, i bought about 4 qts and damn that stuff was expensive $10.82 a bottle! I thought it would be enough but evidently it wasn't (why are auto tranny specs less common and harder to work with? ). So i take the car off the jack stands and check the tranny fluid dipstick... and it was about half a centimeter above the low mark, but i thought hmm i guess that's a good amount just to burp the system since i needed to add coolant anyways, plus the car wouldn't be in drive and I won't be going anywhere. So i start the car and let it run for about a minute bit when i notice whitish gray smoke coming from the back of the engine, and I know for sure this wasn't coolant burning, since i swapped out the old plastic one and added a stock brass one with 1000 miles on it. The smoke had no smell and most of it was coming from the drivers side, I turned it off immediately and checked the tranny dipstick and I realized that the dipstick could've been scraping some oil off the walls of the tube whenever i pulled it up (the car was running when i checked) and i don't think i had a good enough amount, i feel so n00b.
My guess is that it was my auto tranny smokin or possibly the oil that was on the pan, i only left the car on for about a minute and a half max, AND i had a few droplets of fluid hanging off the tranny oil pan.
Plus I've done tons of searches on ATF capacity, but i found out the capacity is defnitely different for the manual and auto. There are no correct specs anywhere! If anyone has the specs for it I'd appreciate it, my friends owner's manual says 8.6 liters for the automatic and I thought.... no way that had to be a typo. I called up 2 mazda dealerships and they didn't know anything.

So auto owners... how many quarts go into the automatic transmission system? and what do you think that white odorless smoke could be? and if it was the transmission, am I out of commission or should I be good when i fill up the rest of the tranny?

scotty305

iTrader: (2)

From my '94 owner's manual:

Transmission oil: Auto Trans. 11.3 US quart / 10.7 Liter.
Manual Trans takes only 2.6 US qt / 2.5 L of tranny fluid.

The manual is pretty accurate, could you imagine the lawsuits if it specified the wrong amount of fluids? It lists the engine oil as 4.0 US qt / 3.8 L, and I usually need ~3.5 US qt to fill it up to right between the "L" and "F" marks, although I've filled it with the full 4.0 qt and it just barely hits the "F" mark.

-scott-

scotty305

iTrader: (2)

The burning might have been from any fluid that was spilled onto the engine during your refill procedure. I get a tiny bit of this sometimes after oil changes.
-s-