 Hey everyone, Chevy R1000 here. Today, we're going to be changing the rear differential fluid, which is a gear lube and this 2010 Chevy Traverse. I want to tell you what you can use. I'm going to show you how to do it. It's real easy and there's no reason why you can't do it in your own driveway like I'm doing it. Save a little money. So stick around guys and I'll explain some stuff to you. Okay guys, so anything with a differential is going to be very very similar. There may be different capacities. There may be, you know, your your vehicle if it's under warranty they want you to run certain certain kinds of stuff. This one calls for Valveline Full Synthetic 75 W90 gear lube. It's just 90 weight, okay. So after your warranty you run whatever the hell you want in here. You can run 80 W90, you can run 75, 140, whatever you want to run. This is just if you're under warranty you need to run what they specify because if something happens they will run tests on your oil or your gear lube whatever the problem was transmission fluid and if it's not what it's supposed to be they won't warranty it. So yeah. So I'm going to show you a couple things up underneath here. Now this thing, unfortunately enough I can get underneath here. I don't have to jack it up. I like to do these as flat as I can as level as I possibly can get them. But yeah most differentials are all pretty much the same process. You drain it, you got to drain and then you have you have a drain plug and you have a fill plug. This holds 1.5 pints so one and a half pints. You know this is a quarter, there's two pints in this. But an easy way to if you're draining it all or even if you're just topping it off I'll show you how to do that. You don't have to measure this stuff out guys like a lot of guys on on the YouTube videos tell you. You got to get that specific. You got to get that perfect and then I'll explain something else to you about where they're wrong when they say you need to have this perfect and then they turn around and do something that's not perfect. So all right let me see if I can get a light. Get you up under here. I know it's dark. The sun's behind you guys so I don't know why I'm so maybe because I'm a hat. I got a different hat on today. I believe this was her dad so I'm going to wear it. But I'm going to get you under here and let's get this set up. Let me get a drain pan and all shaded procedure. We'll talk a little bit about it while I'm doing it. It's not a big deal guys. Pretty much anybody can do this. So stick around. Okay guys so here's the drain plug right on the bottom and the other plug the fill plug is right up here on the side right there. I'm going to get a light on there for you. Let me get you set down. I'll show you what I want to use to take them out. Okay guys so what this one takes now yours may have a a square a square plug in it a male plug something like this. I can't see what you're seeing but something like that or it may have a square female plug which would be a 3 eighths which would be the same as using one of these. In that case I just use a short extension and a ratchet. The short extension will fit right into it. It may have a bolt style. This one happens to take the allen. It's a 10 millimeter. Okay so what I'm going to do first is this stuff stinks too guys. I want to open I want to take the top plug out. Now if you if yours is stripped they may have a torx. If yours is stripped I had the problem on the transfer case. There's plenty of room on this shoulder right here you can get you a chisel. Get you kind of a dog chisel and get on there real good. Wack it a few times with the hammer and it'll it'll break loose like that for you. So I'm taking this out to give it some air for it to drain. So trying to get out of your way here. Okay now see here's what one of the things I wanted to talk to you about. If I was just checking this and it starts running out like that like I said them guys will tell you it's going to be perfect. When they see it running out they'll immediately put the plug back in. That's wrong because if it's running out you got too much in it. Excuse me. So if I was just checking this I would just let that drain until it stops because when this is full it's full right to the bottom of your threads. If nothing comes out then you stick your finger in straight don't bend it down stick your finger in straight and if you get it on your finger it's full but that's where it's supposed to be right at the edge of that and as you can see this was a little over full so I would say when it was filled it wasn't level or something. It doesn't necessarily hurt anything I just don't like to run anything over full. So so now that we got the top out I'm going to go ahead since we're changing this I want to pull the bottom one they're a little tight. Like I said you can use a 10 millimeter allen wrench on this but you'll probably have to put a little pipe or wrench or something on it to give you leverage. But when you got a differential like these are the enclaves, the arcadias, the equinoxes they all have the same drivetrain. In fact the transfer case we put in here is out of buiconclave a 2011 there we go and it's looking to me like I seen some yeah see there's metal here I don't know what you're seeing because I can't see the screen but there's that is metal that's silver stuff okay so and these are usually magnetic to because you know metal is the heaviest part and it will go down to the bottom and usually these are a little magnetic sometimes they even have a little magnet in them like automatic transmissions do see that is all metal shaving so I'm not liking that at all because I thought I heard a noise in this rear end and I thought that's what I was hearing but then the transfer case exploded and then after I changed the transfer case I'm not we're not hearing that noise anymore so I mean you're going to get some metal shavings stuff like that but this this is only got I know it sounds like a lot but anymore it's not this is only got 130 000 miles on it now this is real thick stuff guys and this stuff stinks let me warn you it does stink so yeah these plugs are a little different the one on the bottom is a little longer and it's got a magnetic piece on right here as you can see the top one does not have that so don't mix them up make sure the longest one goes in the bottom into the drain so let me go ahead clean my hands up because I'm going to be messing with my camera I'm going to go ahead and let that drip for a while and uh now I didn't but you can run it up down the road a mile or two a couple miles get it warmed up and that helps get everything out of it then I'll show you how we're going to put this in because if you notice that stuff would be hard to squirt into there uh well I'll go ahead and show you now this right here is the transfer pump that monkey got this for me when I did the transfer the transfer case this is a transfer pump it's just a little hand pump you want to put down into your into your gear loom and you're just going to pump it and it's got a hose that you can pump right into it this thing was $13 it's $12.99 plus tax even if you do one of these I recommend getting one of them because I'll tell you that those things if you use it one time you'll thank me no I'm not going to be there but you'll do it in your head you'll go thanks Shaber that really helped me a lot so yeah it's called a transfer pump just get the cheapest one you can if you plan on doing a lot of these order decent one you know and it's not just for I mean you can you know transfer oil out of like let's say your lawn mower some lawn mowers now like you even push mowers they don't even have a drain plug and they want you to turn it upside down well they really don't want you to change your oil at all but you can stick this down in there and pump your oil out you can put another tube on here if you get too much you change your transmission fluid you put too much in you can put you another longer tube stick this down in to your transmission pull some of that out these things are awesome um so do you need it no but trust me you'll want you want to get one I mean if you're going to spend $20 on this you know lube you know it's what's another 13 bucks I understand money wise we're very tight too but I said you know pick me up one in pumps because it just saves so much hassle trying to get it get you to find you a rubber hose to stick on the end of this thing and trying to get it up high enough to squirt your stuff or you know to pour your stuff down in so let me let this drain I'm gonna go have a pop while this is dripping then we'll put the plug in and I'll show you how to fill it it's real easy but yeah those guys like I said that we're talking you know oh you gotta have the right exact amount well actually no you don't you don't have to measure that out and all that stuff like them guys do and then they'll go and pull that plug out okay it's full and stick it back in let that drip until nothing else comes out if you're just checking it okay now if your front ends up in the air you might not want to do that because you know your fluid your gear loops going to run back and it's going to be higher it'll give you a false reading but if you're on flat level ground like we are our driveway kind of slopes down towards me but the back of this the back of these traverses set a little higher than the front so I'm pretty much levels levels I can get um if you got access to a lift that's even better they're perfectly level so or they're abouts but um yeah I'm as level as you can get right now so yeah I'm fortunate enough I can crawl into here without jacking it up but if you do have to jack the back up try to get something under the front to to make it level because if you jack the back up same thing you know it may all your gear loops going to go to the front and it's going to give you a false reading like you're low excuse me and you'll add it when you don't really have to so anyway yeah just if you're just checking it and you pull that plug out of there and your levels you can get and it starts running out just let it run out until it stops and then that's you know you're done then so hang tight guys and I'll be back with you okay guys I'm back in about 20 minutes as you can see nothing else is coming out wipe your plug off real good no special washer um well I guess you can say it does but it'll stay on there but if it does come off or stay on here make sure that you get a put back on also make sure you wipe that off when you get completely done take some brake clean I don't have any but if you got some take some brake clean spray that off so that way you'll know if you have any new leaks whatnot okay so we're gonna put this in tighten it up it don't have to be super tight not my socket stuck on there I can move this now so now we're going to put oops sorry guys I want to take this off of here and we're going to put our pump in probably best to do that before you get it under here but I wanted to show you that so because this stuff stinks stick this down in here and this will just it doesn't screw on it just pops on like that um this will also fit a uh gallon jug like I said it's a transfer pump the guy at stupid auto zoom see them guys they they're not mechanics guys don't ask them for help they're they're salesmen you know they're sorry they're in retail they're not mechanics okay so I don't know if you're seeing that and then just start pumping it it'll pick up here in a second there it goes now what I'm going to do like I said I'm not measuring I'm just going to pump until it starts running out and once it starts running out then I'm just going to let it run until it stops and once it stopped like I said a lot of guys will start pumping soon as it starts running out to grab the plug real quick and put it in let it finish running if it starts running out let it finish running out but yeah that guy told her well that pump's not gonna work and she said why not he said because that's a transfer pump yeah you're transferring you know liquids but so she asked another guy and she said will this work and he he said yes it that's what that's for and then this is the younger guy and he says well if that don't work you can't bring it back well if it doesn't work if and it's defective I'm gonna bring it back you know it's that simple tell me I can't bring back a pump because because he was adamant it's not going to work it's a transfer pump yeah that's what you're doing you're transferring this gear lube into that differential or in that in the case the other day in my transfer case so so I'm going to get this under here sorry guys if I had a lift it'd be a lot easier to film for you guys but as you can see this is all I'm doing is pumping this up make sure it's going in there you said it'll probably take three fourths of this bottle but and I'm not down to half yet excuse me but you don't really have to measure it just put it in until it starts coming out once it starts coming out let it come out until it stops and it's perfectly full we're getting close now and I'm gonna speed you up I took that whole quart which I've got more it's not a big thing but I'm going to go ahead let's take this out and I'm just going to check with my finger and it's perfectly right on top there so it took about a quart the capacities in your manual your uh the owner's manual of this thing will not tell you anything about your transmission or nothing like that right now so I'm going to let that set for a minute see it's start it's dripping out so I'm just going to let it drip until it stops dripping and then this is done so stick around and then we'll get out from under here okay I think you guys can see that it's pretty well it's pretty well stopped so I'm going to go ahead and put the plug in that little drip that's okay just if you pull it out and a whole bunch of stuff starts running out and you're just checking it just let it run until it stops or you know drips like this is fine all right there's that a three eighths we'll work in this but it the 10 fits a little bit better as you can see it wants to stick too so make sure you wipe all this off now I'm going to go ahead and make sure I get this all dried off so I don't see a little puddle later thinking I got a leak like I said as best if you got some kind of brake cleaner or car cleaner you can spray on there but I am all out so all right I'm going to fight and get you guys out of here now all right guys so that's it 2010 Chevy Traverse Buick Enclave Equinox Arcadia all pretty much the same just put it in until it starts coming out once it starts coming out let it stop when it stops put your plug in you're done all right guys thanks for watching I appreciate it Shabear the myth man ledge I'm gone for now just quick how-to video for you pretty much anyone can do so all right guys stay safe Shabear the myth man ledge I'm gone for now we'll see you guys in the next one bye bye guys take care