 Hey guys, welcome to another, well I guess it's a repair slash service video. We're doing transmission service, replacing the filter, which is also called the strainer, someone's pulling up. And the transmission fluid, we're doing a drain and fill, but we're also removing the oil pan. And working on an 07 Toyota 4Runner with the V8 engine, only rear wheel drive, two wheel drive only, guys. So this is going to be easier because some of the exhaust is not going to be in the way. That's it. Everything else is the same. What I'm going to do though, I'm not going to use some special equipment, what not to measure the temperature of the transmission where I am, but I'm going to also compare the temperature with your average Joe laser thermometer. Can you see this? There you go. You're at 70 degrees right now. The camera is 68. So we're going to use this and an actual scanner that can read the transmission's temperature. Compare the two, because remember we had to keep the temperature, transmission temperature at 115 to the temperature numbers are right there on the ceiling. Temperature between 115 and 130, that's what it says on the ceiling. Anyways, yeah, that's what we're doing. I am actually kind of halfway through the job and then I thought, hey, I should record it. So this is it. Okay, guys, so we are underneath the car. This is the fill plug. This is a T55 Torx bit. Okay, this guy. This guy lives on top of the transmission, driver's side, rear, right over here. Well, in my case, I got plenty of room to put an extension with a ratchet and just undo this plug first. Then you're going to want to drain. This is a 14mm drain, the fluid. Make sure the transmission is hot, more fluid will come out. Don't worry about this guy. You can loosen this up and tighten back up, just finger tighten for now. You're going to loosen this up, catch the oil, catch it in a measurable container or not. Up to you, I drained one, two, two and a quarter quarts. Then after you drain it, remove all the 10mm bolts besides two side ones. So you can see I left this one on and this one on. Then you're going to want to loosen these a little bit, just a few threads and then break the gasket loose so the pump or the pump, the pan, looks like this. It's a bit wobbly and this is where I stopped and decided to record this. So we're going to move on, take this off. Okay guys, we're going to attempt to remove this pan without spilling the fluid. This should be easy because the fluid is mostly drained. Some of it is going to still be there. I imagine maybe a quart, quart over quart, quarter over quart. Here we go. One thing I can tell you, this oil is black. I don't think this was ever changed. Okay, just realize I don't have a pan. Hand me something, man. Hand me what? I don't know. Okay, a box. Okay, use a cardboard box to catch the rest of the fluids. Make sure you're not prepared. We actually have a half a quart. We missed the box entirely. Okay guys. So this is the filter slash strainer. As you can see it's got four 10 mil bolts. We're going to yank this off, put a new one in. I don't need to clean anything. Look at this. This is super clean where the gasket used to be. It came off with the pan. Guys, I tried to aim where, you know... I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah, I can see that. If you want to check the state of the oil, grab a white piece of paper. Instructions are best for installing a rear hitch or wiring. Just dump it in and look, this is supposed to be somewhat clear or reddish. This is black. This is bad. Okay, I'm glad I... I'm doing this rubber gasket. Man, it's just 135,000 miles on this. If this was here in the Midwest, then this all of it would be rusty. I want to dump this out somewhere. Okay, my cameraman is fresh. First day of the job. Anyways, look here, guys. Two things I want to show you. Clean these magnets up. Look at these shavings. This is not bad, actually. This is normal. But take them out, clean them up. Where's that for supposed to catch the shavings? Shavings, yes. Should be four magnets. Okay, I'm going to get to them later. And check this out. So this is your check plug, right? It's a straw. It's basically a straw. That's the plug. And here you have the straw. It's not removable. On some Toyota's, some V6, 4 cylinder engines, these are removable anyways. This is a V8. So this, as you fill this in from the top, right? From about right over here. Actually, no, it depends like this. So right over here, you're going to fill this up. And with the hot transmission at what? 115, 120 degrees. You're going to start overfilling. And this is wide overfills. When it overfills, the oil comes out through this straw. So the level is up right over here. So this makes sure you don't overfill it. But obviously, you've got to make sure that this plug is open. When you refill it and add temperature. When you clean this up, install the new gasket over here. I'm going to show you, I'm going to take those four bolts. Take the filter out. Actually, I'm talking, the pen is not talking, I'm talking. It's still filled. I got to send you some camera training, boot camp. I'm just showing them all your pointing, whatever you were pointing at. Oh, okay. Yeah, you're right. Okay. So. Okay. Was it, was it? Oh yeah. Let's do the filter right now. Since I got a camera on it. What? What's this? Make sure you lose some parts. Did I take that? I took something off. I didn't have to. All right. We're going to look at it later. So don't do what I just did. It's going to be a lot of editing. I think I got some fluid in my eye. It burns. All right. We're losing both left and right. The cardboard, I got to say, is doing a great job. You're glad I gave you that box. All right. Make sure you got rags. Oh, there's the bolt. All right. So this is the filter strainer. Probably is it too dark for you? Okay. There is a gasket or an O-ring, I should say, right over here. Make sure you take that out. Okay. Make sure you take this out. Check it. There's a new one with the new filter that you got. Double make sure. Triple make sure you have one on the new filter and this is empty. Triple make sure. Triple quadruple. What is the fucking Chinese? No swearing on my channel. Quadruple double. This is what I just love. In case you lose this. Let's figure it out. In case you take this out. I think it went... Well, maybe it's not necessary. Maybe it's some weight reduction. Yeah, it's extra part. You'll need it. Yeah, okay. We'll figure out later. This looks original. Okay. I'm going to clean this up. You're back. Next day. Things escalated quickly. Made a mess. Took something I didn't... Oh, I didn't have to. Had to go back. Luckily, I'm recording this. Had to go back. Because I wasn't sure. Looked through the video and see how it goes back together. Then lost the little gasket. Not gasket. Washer for the check plug. Couldn't find it. Too many cold snacks. Then figured I found a copper washer. Almost fits. Should work. Now, I do admit I did not buy any new washers for the drain plug, fill plug, all that stuff. The fill plug gets a rubber seal. The drain plug gets a washer. That's still there. And the check plug gets a washer. Next time I'll be prepared. I'm going to get new ones from Toyota. All right, guys. We continue. This is what the pen should look like before install. Squeaky, clean. Clean magnets and all that stuff. Okay, guys. So this is the guy that I took out, this bolt. Just went to town on those 10 mil bolts and just took this off. The filter bolt is right next to it. So this mechanism fell off. That's for the shifter. Pretty self-explanatory. Just used common sense. Two parts. This is separate from this. But I did went back on the video to make sure. All right, so we're going to slap on the filter. Make sure that all ring is there. And that's it. Okay, so I got me... I got me a Wix. Can you see this? This is a Wix 58136. Made in Taiwan. Now we all know Wix is probably the best. If it comes to filters. Here's the box. And I got me a six pack of ATF by Vevelin. Now I know. Some of you are like, why is this guy not using Toyota? Fluid. Transmission is going to go bad and all that stuff. Well, this stuff is also good. And I know. I know I'm going to be mixing it. But I do intend to do this after a thousand miles. Another thousand miles and so on. Because that fluid in there is bad. And this is cheaper. It's still very good stuff. A lot of people use it with no issues. Went through all kinds of reviews. Spoke with some people that have been running this exact oil or fluid in their Toyota's for thousands, tens of thousands of miles and no issues reported. So that's what I'm going with. Hate all you want. Comment whatever. I don't care. Do what you want to do. Use what you want to use. This is what I'm doing. This is my choice. As you can see the O-ring is on the filter. This is nice and clean. I take a little bit of the ATF and just put it on the gasket and just pop this in. I was hoping it was going to kind of pop, but it didn't. But it looks like it did go in. Make sure it's all the way up flush with the body over here and then put the bolts in. What I've done, I did not glue the gasket to the top of the pan. I'm just going to try my luck and install it with it just lying on top. Oh wow, check this out. This is even better. The holes in the gasket are so tight that the bolts will actually stay. I'm just going to put a few through or maybe even all of them. Check this out guys. See all the bolts? This is nice. If you saw me start on the threads, I'm going to tighten them up, torque them down. I'm going to find out what the torque is and I'm going to refill it. Alright guys, so these 10 mil bolts on the transmission pan are torqued to 65 inch pounds. 65, that's like, that's nothing. I did kind of tighten them up a little bit already, you know, grabbed my ratchet like this and made them, didn't really make them tight, but I'm afraid this is 65. It's so little that I might have made it too tight. Let's see. And remember, this is a rubber gasket, you don't want it over tightened. Let's see if I was too tight. No, okay. Not even close. I'm just going to go around and keep going around until I reach the 65, kind of doing it in a two step. I want to tighten up one bolt all the way to 65 when the others are not even close. So, okay, so this is boring. So I'm going to just keep going around and around until I get 65. Okay guys, it takes a while, but you don't want to just go around once, get it to 65, because as you go around the bolt that you just torque down to 65, it's going to torque down again to 65. So you saw me once I got the 65, I went around twice and I still tighten up a little bit. Okay, so we're done over here. Let's make sure our plugs are tight. I want to kind of crush this, you know, foreign washer to this pen. Here is the O-ring on the fill plug. It's solid, the rubber's soft, it's not torn. It's good. Why change it? Okay guys, this is my setup. I got three bottles ready to go. I drained two and a quarter, two quarts and a quarter of the quartz. And, you know, some spilled, well, more than some. Then some was draining overnight. Then some more spilled. So I reckon two and a half, maybe two and three quarters. It doesn't really matter. I'm going to remove the check, roam up the transmission, remove the check plug and check it properly. As I mentioned at the beginning of the video, make sure your car is level. Now that I look at it, the check plug is in the middle, smack in the middle of the pen, more or less. So if you think about it, if it's a bit, you know, one degree this way or this way, not going to really matter that much because the transmission is way back of the vehicle. So like I said, you know, if it was on the edge of the car, which it's never going to unless you've got a Porsche, I guess, then it would have to be, you know, at zero level. But since it's more or less in the middle, you know, you can get away with an, I don't know, half an inch of a difference. I actually do have some half inch plywood on the other side of these posts, just to raise the back of the vehicle a little bit higher because as this thing sits, the S of it is a little bit higher. So I didn't, and the frame is actually a little bit higher. So I went with how it sits on the ground and on its wheels, not how the frame is. So the frame is, as the car sits, the frame is a little bit angled up. So that's how it is on the lift right now. All right, so I have this pump. Make sure the ends are clean, hooked up to the battery. Obviously, you know, I mostly use this for transmission fluid, this pump, but there is, I don't know what transmission fluid is in there left over from our service before. I'm guessing it was also a Toyota, but I'm just going to run some through it, run some fluid through the pump. That should be good. Okay, sorry for the darkness, but my main light just went out. Actually, now that I think about it, because the trans fluid expands when it gets hot, I should be able to fill it until it starts dripping from the check plug. Well, we're going to take this out anyway because this check plug needs to be off when the car is running and, you know, warming up or when you check the fluid. All right, again, I apologize if you can't see, but I'm limited on room over here. So if we're going to, if I were to fill this up right now until the fluid comes out out of the check plug, once the transmission is hot, it should come out even more. But I'm just going to go ahead and put in, you know, the two and a half quarts. I did the whole three almost. I'm sure there's something left on the bottom because I forgot I did the radiator, replaced on the radiator a few days ago. And, you know, some of the fluid came out of the radiator, obviously. I guess if you are removing, well, we're going to check if more of this fluid is going to come out once the transmission is hot. Well, that's the fill plug. What am I doing? I'm going to block that off. All right, I'm going to clean up, install all the plugs, warm this up. I'm going to compare the temperatures with a laser on the pan, you know, pointing the laser at the pan and the actual scanner. So I've been trying to put the fill plug back in and, you know, some of the things these engineers come up with is just, look at this. Can you see the fill plug? You see how it's about to cross thread? And you see why? Because this metal bracket is in the way. This part here. Why? Why make that so big? And I've been trying to put that back in for the past five minutes. You know, I mean, look at this. This is just in the way. It's not damaged or anything, it's not bent, it's just how it is. How the hell? I'm going to have to maybe try and bend this up, get a long pry bar. Because this just will not go in. Just dumb. All right guys, just got it started. It's about 60 inside here, 60 degrees. About 50 outside, but that doesn't matter. Let's see what this thing says. 73.7. Can you see this? 80. Maybe there's two separate sensors. And 78. Okay, very similar. I should mention, once you started, go through the gears a few times. All of them. You know, three, two, low, dry, neutral, park. All of them reverse a few times. And I just found some info. Drain and refill capacity is up to three quarts. According to all data, right here, a quart, three quarts. That's exactly what we put in. All right, check the temperatures again. Scanner says 87.1. Pan says 86.4. And we got no leaks, which is good. Now I'm looking through forums and stuff, my all data won't tell me what temperature exactly we need. But I got two answers, either between 104 Fahrenheit and 113, or between 115 to 130. I don't know. But if we get to 114, it should be good. All right, guys. So according to your type of transmission, year of the vehicle, whatever you got, even if you're doing a Tacoma or Sequoia with the same transmission, you're either going to have about 100 to 115 degrees, or 115 to about 130, even 33. But we're going to aim for about 113, 12, you know, kind of try and meet in the middle. So let's check those temperatures again. On the pan, 99.5. All right, 102, 101. Okay, it's been about 15, 20 minutes. We are at 110, almost 111, on both sensors. Now if you notice something, check this out. If I look at the end, measure the temperature at the end of the pan, it's 101, 102. And as I go towards the engine, it goes up. And this is right by the bell housing. We are at 112. So 110, right in the middle, right by the check plug. It's actually 114. It's kind of different, 111. So I guess I'd say it's pretty accurate. Okay, if you just go on the point, this laser at the middle of the pan, let's see what it is on the side. 125. All the difference. Yeah, so right down, bottom of the pan, 113, 112. I think we are good to check. I'm going to try and do this one-handed. Remember the harder this gets, the more fluid should come out. Nothing is coming out. Okay, actually I'm going to leave it off. I'm going to do my setup again and put more fluid in it. Okay, we're still at 113. Scanner says 115. Especially pretty dirty fluid. That was way low. 115 on the pan, 115 on the scanner. So we're good. I'm going to let it drip for a little bit. But man, I need to change this again. All right, so you want a little drip. Hopefully you can see this. That's when you know you're good on the level. Wow, you saw how many quarts it took. This makes me think that the fluid was changed at some point or maybe a lot of it more than I thought came out of the radiator or actually stayed in the old radiator, which is right here. And it took so much, let's see how many it took. So I put, originally I put three in and we are left with one, two more empty bottles and another half. So it took five and a half. Okay, but that doesn't really matter. If you're not doing the radiator, you're most likely just put it in three quarts. But still, man, I mean, I saw how dirty that oil still is after we put in so many, I don't know what the capacity is. I'm guessing 12 of the whole transmission. But I'm no longer my next service. I'm not going to be removing the pan and changing the filter and all that. Just drain and fill. It's going to be much quicker, easier. But I do want to drive on it for a little bit, see how it shifts and all and do this probably another two, three times until I'm happy with the color of the fluid. Now you could just visit a shop, have them hook up a special machine and do a proper flush. All of the fluid, old fluid would come out as the new fluid comes in. I'm guessing maybe $250, maybe $300. It depends what fluid you use. Obviously, I think the service maybe costs for maybe two hours, I'm guessing. So nowadays, it's probably $200. And the fluid, what is it, $15, $20 a pop? I forgot what I paid for the wavelength much less than the original Toyota, you know, the WS fluid. Anyways, guys, this is it. You technically don't... A lot of people say you don't ever need to replace the filter strainer. I do. I mean, mine was filthy. I did another one on my BMW, which I don't have anymore. It was also nasty, it was grayish on the inside, it's supposed to be white. So I don't know, there is no fluids for life, oils for life or filters for life. Yeah, they are for the life of the transmission until it breaks. Yeah, they're correct there, but if you do change on those, obviously your stuff will last longer, right? Obviously. If this helps you out, do me a favor, subscribe, like the video, dislike it, comment, just do something. See you later.