12-23-2009, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by JCL
You pump it in from underneath, you don't just fill it to the level plug on the side of the transmission. And, as dipstick notes, you need to monitor the transmission fluid temperature as the level has to be precise, at a certain given fluid temperature. There is a documented procedure in the manual, and probably reproduced on this site if you do a search.
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While I'm assuming the ZF trans is different between the X5 and the 3/5/7 cars, www.e38.org has a couple of nice writeups w/ warming techniques that I used when doing drain & fills on a handful of the 7's that I've done for customers.
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