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Originally Posted by SlickGT1
Glad to hear ghost. Did you follow the instructions I suggested. Curious to see if you noticed getting more fluid in there this time around. I sure as hell did. My issues are also gone.
By the way, my fluid came out black again on second pan drop and fill. How about you?
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First off I did get the new pan bolts this morning. I will put them on tomorrow. The dealer and online they wanted $2.95 per bolt there are 20. No one else caries the flange bolts. I went to fastenal and I got 20 nickel bolts and washers. It should work fine, This is a non critical bolt, except for the proper torque spec. The bolts I got are nickel hex bolts, 6m 1.0 16mm 8.8 tensil strength. that's 3 times the strength of the stock bolts but they need washers. for $5 for everything. I just have to be careful to not overtorque. The stock bolts are torqued 15 ft lbs. I'll torque to 10 ft lbs and watch for leaks. If it needs more I can always add more torque.
Yes I did follow you instruction. I put 3.5 qts in started the car let run for about 10 minutes until the pan was warm to hot to the touch, my internal palm thermometer I was born with, indicated it was 131.0789 degree F. Just about the temp of a hot piece of Pizza. I had the trans in neutral with the car running and put in 58 ozs (1 qt 26ozs). The car was level I had it jacked up and used a level on the flat part of the trans pan to adjust the level.
Next I'm replacing the fuel reg/filter. hopefully tomorrow. I'm having to crank the engine twice to start after it has set for awhile. From the posts here the fuel regulator looses it prime. I guess after 145k miles it's time.
If that doesn't cure it I be going into the steering column to replace the ignition switch.