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I was wondering...is it easy to do a tranny flush by yourself? My transmission fluid is getting dirty, says Honda, and they're charging me $140 to do the job... I was wondering if it's better just to do it myself...anyone know how and how much it would take..

 
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you mean just drain it and re-fill it? I dunno how bad an AT is, but if its MT, just jack the whole car up (so its level) theres a bolt in the bottom of the tranny that a 3/8" socket drive fits into (its square). Undo it, then follow the instructions in the manual for topping it off to re-fill it. I don't think it needs to be flushed everytime you do it. Make sure you replace the crush washers when you put the bolts back in.

Oh... and USE HONDA FLUID. Its formulated to keep the gears and synchros from wearing and corroding. Most of the stuff people think to use (Redline, Motul, etc....) are either too thin or don't have all the additives in the Honda stuff.

 
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I did mine recently. Just get under the car and look for the bolt. Unscrew with a socket wrench and drain it out. Then fill it up through the top with about 3 quarts Honda ATF and drive it around. You can probably get a diagram of the bolt you need to find from the dealer.

 
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I talked to one of the service ppl at Honda..and they said that consumers shouldn't do it themselves.. that you need machines to get ALL of the ATF out.. He said that there's 10 qts of ATF in the transmission and u'll only be getting 1/3 of that out..

 
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bullshit there is 10 quarts, there is 5, saids right inside your manual

and when you change it yourself, you will get 3 quarts out of it, because you won't be able to empty the ones inside the torque converter, you will ineed need a machine to pump out all 5 quarts, but all i did is do 2 changes, did the first one, waited 1-2 and did another one, i have a diy of the atf change

http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/sh...ght=atf+change

 
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I took it to the dealer, and they said they would only change it once.

 
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they probably have the machine to flush the system

i don't, i will never be able to completely remove old fluids, but at least i can remove most of it

 
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i used to work at a penske's auto shop, we did a/t transmission flush's and we did need a machine i wouldn't recommend doing it without it, because like voiceofid said you won't be able to get all of it out. From what i remember we did it for like 40 bucks or something its been a long a$$ time. Check some place other than a dealer they usually charge way to much.

 
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i dont know about transmission flushes. i would just do a plain drain and fill it up again. I have heard bad about tranmission flushes. Something about the life expentency for your tranny being shorter. Although it might different with Honda trans. because i remember seeing a lot cars in my dads tranny shop(most of them domestic) because of them blowing the tranny after have a flush done which is the reason why my dad doesn't do transmission flushes because he has seen too many people have problems after. I am not really familiar how the machine works but i heard the car must be in idle in order to get all the fluid out of the tranny. Part of the reason being because of the torque converter.

I haven't really asked my dad how really the machine works so I might be wrong. But I would just go with a simple drain and fill it up again because i dont think its really recessary to drain all the fluid in the tranny.

 
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I called one dealer near me and he said he would charge $80 or something. So I called another dealer near my school (upstate, NY). Much cheaper...he said it'd only be like $50. Shop around!

 
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I ended up doing it myself...u could do it urself for like under $15 in materials...