WTF is with the transmission drain plug?!?!

[lbrowne]

I get the car all jacked up after i completely remove the shifter boot and other boots. now all thats left is the metal shift stick comin out of the transmission. if i'm spose to remove that i have no idea how. There appears to holes on either side of the ball the stick is attached to, that goes right into the transmission from what i can tell.

Well heres the reason for the post, i get under the car, I spot the big square fill plug, I'm looking around the bottom of the transmission cuz the only thing there that would be a drain plug it a plug thats completely round, with a square hole in the tip....for some sort of tool or bit that I don't have.

wtf??!?!

EDIT: OPPS look at that recent post about the drain plug, so a 1/2 inch drive should do it. I'll try it.

Can anyone tell me if I got what i need removed with regards to the shifter?

[Silvia007]

There's a C ring holding the Shifter in, get a c-ring removal tool or find long wood screws that fit into the little holes in the c-ring and use a pair of vice grips/pliers/etc and squeeze and it should shrink the c-ring which will then pop out. When that's done, pull out the shifter.

[lbrowne]

can you not, if you have a bottle with a thin spout, squirt it into the lil holes exposed on either side of the shifter base/ball?

i think i might end up using the filler plug, unless the c ring removal is dirt cheap. your other method i really can not understand what you're saying, sorry

[Silvia007]

Yeah it's kinda difficult to explain, if you are trying to fill through the shifter, just pour it slowly into the base of the shifter, that's what I did, but I left the fill plug off so that I don't over fill the transmission. The gear fluid will squeeze it's way through the shifter pretty easily.

[lbrowne]

cool, I think thats what I'll do.

thanks!

lbrowne

[dreamsOfSkylines]

i bought a fluid pump frum sears for $13

[240canuck]

just fill it the way its supposed to be filled through the fill/check plug. thats what its there for.

[slw240sx]

that C ring on the shifter is a Bi*tch to get out let me tellyah but it was also liek 30o in my garage an i had no gloves on!

[trpower7]

The drain plug just uses a standard 1/2 inch drive to loosen it. Take a half inch ratchet, and cram the square peg straight in the square hole, then twist till it breaks loose.