How to change my transmission fluid?

Chas Wiggins · Post by **Chas Wiggins** » Wed May 26, 2004 10:31 pm

I have a 2000 Daewoo Lanos (manual trans) that I autocross on the weekends and my car has 62,xxx miles on it. I plan on putting synthetic fluid in it.

Can you all give me a crash course on how to change my trans fluid.
What is the capacity in the F16?
What weight viscosity?

Do I need to buy any gaskets or anything?

TIA

Wolf-Spirit · Post by **Wolf-Spirit** » Thu May 27, 2004 2:10 pm

normaly speaking that should never be changed at all.... i think i doesnt even have a plug to let the oil out of the tranny it does have a filling pplug though....

will in about a min if it has one though... need to do a oil change of a car wich is curantly running to get it on temprature

Wolf-Spirit · Post by **Wolf-Spirit** » Thu May 27, 2004 3:09 pm

yust checked there isnt a plug to drain it... best you can do is take the bottem off i geus... and use a new gasket if needed.

As for fluids SAE80W (or SAE75w for cold places) and 1.8Liters ... this is taken from instruction manual.

Chas Wiggins · Post by **Chas Wiggins** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:44 am

I went ahead and replaced the fluid. There is a drain plug, right above the passenger axle. I put 1 and 8/9ths 75w90 Mobil One Synthetic. There was quite a bit of metal shavings nut luckily the Lanos transmisssion plug has a built in mahnet to collect the powder shavings.

Runs a bit smoother now.

Wolf-Spirit · Post by **Wolf-Spirit** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:39 am

thats a filling plug as far as i know?

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz · Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:06 pm

My Lanos is not at my house right now, so I can not quote it's manual, but I have my Leganza's manual to use, just as a reference.
It says:

For the Leganza:
Automatic transaxle fluid:
Capacity 7.4 ~ 8.0 quarts (7.0 ~ 7.6L)
Change every 60,000 miles (96,000 km).
Under severe conditions: 30,000 miles (48,000 km)

Manual transaxle oil:
Capacity: 1.9 quarts (1.8L)
Check every 12,000 miles (19,200 km) or every year.
Refill if necessary.
A fluid change is not necessary.

Although the manual does not reccomend a change of the manual gear oil, I always change mine just to get the metal particles out that were in there from when it was manufactured.
Personally, I like to change the regular oil to synthetic.

Cliff

Chas Wiggins · Post by **Chas Wiggins** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 4:38 pm

Wolf-Spirit wrote:thats a filling plug as far as i know?

I used a syphon pump to retrieve all of the fluid out of the bottom of the sump. Then I used it to put the synthetic in. Worked great!

Wolf-Spirit · Post by **Wolf-Spirit** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 6:22 pm

ahhh i c ... yes that should work