Advice & Suggestions

[gunbunny]

Ok, the recent situation with the nasty brake fluid has me wondering.
The transmission and rear diff fluid. The tranny fluid looks and smells ok, or at least I think so. I cant get to the diff without taking the cover off. I have no real reason to believe either have been replaced.
The story on the car is this, it is the real deal found in a garage car. A friend of mine asked me to help him clean out his great uncles house. the uncle passed away and yadda yadda. anyway when I get there, I'm being nosy and see the Dart in the garage with a carpet covering it. there are boxes of crap on the car and figured it was some old POS. I tell my buddy when we get to the garage, I get first dibs on what I find (I spied out a 30lb jug of R12). We get to the garage and pull the boxes and carpet off and lo and behold there sits the Dart. My buddy says "I haven't seen that thing since the 80's". It took some work, but I finally got it out of my buddy's family. That day we put some fresh gas in the tank, a little in the carb and the Dart fired right up.
anyway, I am leary of messing with the trans fluid. The diff, not so much. What do you think?

 

[restoman]

Change 'em both. It's very little money well spent.
Tranny service is not difficult at all.
Transmissions & diffs are probably the most neglected parts in the car - next to the brake fluid.:toot:

 

[giowest]

What he said.

 

[thrashingcows]

Transmissions & diffs are probably the most neglected parts in the car - next to the brake fluid.:toot:

:bwuhaha:


Yup tranny service is pretty simple...get a big drain pan then undo all the bolts except one loose one on opposide sides...then use a screw driver to pry the pan loose...the fluid will dump everywere....messy but not bad.

Then once drained remove pan and pull off the filter...3 screws through the filter, replace with new one and reinstall everything. You can rotate the torque converter and see if there is a drain plug...is so then drain that as well and then once all reassembled refill with ATF and fire it up.

Rear diff you obvously know the drill...

 

[J.C. Corbett]

For the trans, I learned a neat little trick. Take a plastic trash can lid, drill several holes in the center, turn it upside down, center it over a bucket, place it under the trans, then undo your pan bolts. Use the neoprene gasket for the trans. The cork gasket will eventually leak. I learned the trash can lid trick after flooding my garage with atf. Don't be me.:shifty:

 

[thrashingcows]

For the trans, I learned a neat little trick. Take a plastic trash can lid, drill several holes in the center, turn it upside down, center it over a bucket, place it under the trans, then undo your pan bolts. Use the neoprene gasket for the trans. The cork gasket will eventually leak. I learned the trash can lid trick after flooding my garage with atf. Don't be me.:shifty:

Sweet tip there J.C......Thanks!! :2thumbs:


Or do what I do....get one of these and install it....