You won't get that much fluid out if you just drop the plug (or pan, depending).
Most of the fluid will stay in the torque converter (some converters can be
drained, don't know about a Mustang).
There are only a couple of ways to replace transmission fluid (if you can't
drain the torque converter):
- drain and refill, run the engine and cycle through the gears, repeat, ...
(there will always be some of the old fluid remaining)
- do a "flush," with the engine running using a special manifold that drains the
old fluid and replaces with new in "realtime"
Frankly, I think it's easier/cleaner to just pay a transmission shop to do this.
BTW, unless the fluid is brown and/or smells "burnt," it'll go more than 65K
miles.
bs
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Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@comcast.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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> Yes Jack the manual is right.....
>
> Auto Transsmission
> Capacity Motorcraft MERCON (ATF)
> 13.9 quarts (13.1 Liters)
>
>
> Joe
> '66 BJ8 '97 Mustang V6
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Ph.J.Aeckerlin
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 12:04 PM
> To: Healey webforum
> Subject: Non-Healey: Ford Mustang
>
>
> Friends,
> Can one of you confirm the following. My daughter used to work in the
> USA and bought her first car there, a 1997 Ford Mustang with a 3.8 litre
> V6 engine and automatic gearbox. She was headhunted to Europe and took
> her car with her. It's now up to daddy to maintain her car. After
> 65,000 miles Ford suggests to change the automatic transmission oil, and
> that's where my problem starts. According to the Owner Guide the
> transmission requires 13.9 quarts or 13.1 litres of transmission fluid.
> That seems an excessive lot to me - when that's true I shall have to
> make a special container to catch the old oil as I have never in my life
> replaced such an ocean of fluid. Or is it a printing error in the
> manual? Please advise, and my apologiesfor even mentioning a Ford
> Mustang on an Austin-Healey site. Please forgive me.
> Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
> 1964 BJ8 29432
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