That's easy...same way it's been recommended and done for years. Despite the things that have been implied or suggested thus far, there's no reason to try and out-think the manufacturers. If they say to do it differently, then by all means I will.
I've asked the question several times here and elsewhere, and it never gets a straight answer:
Are manufacturers aware or unaware of the amount of fluid that gets changed when a pan is dropped? I'm going with aware. Change it at recommended intervals, using recommended procedures and recommended fluid. There's no reason whatsoever to go looking on the 'net for "transmission flushing secrets". If they want a fluid "flushed" they'll say so. I find it borderline hilarious that while some folks claim "flush" and "change" mean the same thing, they also believe that there are several types of flushes to choose from, and that some are preferable compared to the others. Where's the logic there?
At work, we came across a similar situation recently, when I noticed another tech removing an oil cooler on one of the Deutz diesels we have so he could empty the oil out of it. I inquired as to what he was doing, and he said he *needed* to remove it during the oil change "to get the dirty oil out of it".
It says right in the manuals for the equipment and the engine itself that oil will remain in the cooler, and that draining the pan at recommended intervals and using the proper grade oil is all that's required. In other words, the folks that built the engine KNOW the cooler doesn't empty when you take out the oil pan drain plug.
So while his efforts were commendable, they provided no real benefit.
I'm not *against* bucket-flushing or whatever else an owner wants to do himself or herself, but look at the multitude of conclusions a perspective DIY-er could draw from this thread:
"Flushing and changing are the same thing"
"This type of flushing is better than that type of flushing"
"I'd do the bucket flush, but not the reverse-flush"
"I read a post from a guy that worked in a lab"
"I do it this way and maybe that's why I haven't blown a tranny in 20 years"
Put all those, (and more), statements/claims/opinions in a single thread, shake them up.....and what have you got? More confusion than an unfamiliar DIY-er came into the thread with.
So can we all pat ourselves on the back and say "mission accomplished", or....would something else be more appropriate?
I've asked the question several times here and elsewhere, and it never gets a straight answer:
Are manufacturers aware or unaware of the amount of fluid that gets changed when a pan is dropped? I'm going with aware. Change it at recommended intervals, using recommended procedures and recommended fluid. There's no reason whatsoever to go looking on the 'net for "transmission flushing secrets". If they want a fluid "flushed" they'll say so. I find it borderline hilarious that while some folks claim "flush" and "change" mean the same thing, they also believe that there are several types of flushes to choose from, and that some are preferable compared to the others. Where's the logic there?
At work, we came across a similar situation recently, when I noticed another tech removing an oil cooler on one of the Deutz diesels we have so he could empty the oil out of it. I inquired as to what he was doing, and he said he *needed* to remove it during the oil change "to get the dirty oil out of it".
It says right in the manuals for the equipment and the engine itself that oil will remain in the cooler, and that draining the pan at recommended intervals and using the proper grade oil is all that's required. In other words, the folks that built the engine KNOW the cooler doesn't empty when you take out the oil pan drain plug.
So while his efforts were commendable, they provided no real benefit.
I'm not *against* bucket-flushing or whatever else an owner wants to do himself or herself, but look at the multitude of conclusions a perspective DIY-er could draw from this thread:
"Flushing and changing are the same thing"
"This type of flushing is better than that type of flushing"
"I'd do the bucket flush, but not the reverse-flush"
"I read a post from a guy that worked in a lab"
"I do it this way and maybe that's why I haven't blown a tranny in 20 years"
Put all those, (and more), statements/claims/opinions in a single thread, shake them up.....and what have you got? More confusion than an unfamiliar DIY-er came into the thread with.
So can we all pat ourselves on the back and say "mission accomplished", or....would something else be more appropriate?
