How do you service a transmission for a 1988 Ford LTD crown victoria?
how do you change the oil of the transmission and the filter…the transmission has trouble changing gears and it won’t go into the top gear i think it needs the oil changed in the transmission.
first get a transmission service kit. kit consists of 1- transmission pan gasket 2- tansmission filter. 5 to 6 quarts dextron3, 4, or 5 (all 3 will work) transmission fluid. NOTE: MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE ON HAND A transmission FLUID FUNNEL (VERY IMPORTANT) raise vehicle. have a sutible sized fluid drain pan. (a suitable drain pan will be one that will hold at least 1 1/2 gal of fluid, be shallow enough to fit under vehicle, and to excede in size the shape of the transmission pan) place jack stands under your vehicle. remove transmission pan bolts. what i do is take out all of the bolts except 3 or 4 (one in each corner of the pan as to not bend the pan in any way when removing fluid) as you loosten the remaining 3 or 4 bolts fluid will start to ease its way out through the pan and transmission. this is normal and is necessary to drain the fluid. (NOTE: SOMETIMES PAN HAS BEEN GLUED INTO PLACE. YOU MIGHT NEED A PUTTY KNIFE OR SOMETHING SIMILAR TO SEPERATE THE PAN FROM THE TRANNY) ONCE PAN IS REMOVED U’LL SEE TYHE FILTER ATTATCHED TO THE TRANNY FROM UNDER THE TRANSMISSION. THERE SHOULD BE TWO BOLTS HOLDING THIS IN PLACE, OR SOMETIMES THERE PRESSED INTO PLACE. IF PRESSED, REMOVE THE STABELIZER BRACKET BOLT AND TWIST THE FILTER BACK AND FORTH , PULLING AT THE SAME TIME UNTIL FILTER IS OFF.) the next step is most important. remove old filter from pan and underside of tramsmission. you want that pan to look brand new. never install new gasket to a pan that has pieces of the old gasket still attatched to the pan or trann. they will leak everytime! the best way to remove this old gasket is to use a wire hand brush or wire wheel. degrease the pan as to not have any contaminents going back into ur transmission. install in reverse.
Remove the pan and filter and replace filter and new fluid, it’s messy but you can do it.
You may also want to buy a new modulator valve
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first get a transmission service kit. kit consists of 1- transmission pan gasket 2- tansmission filter. 5 to 6 quarts dextron3, 4, or 5 (all 3 will work) transmission fluid. NOTE: MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE ON HAND A TRANSMISSION FLUID FUNNEL (VERY IMPORTANT) raise vehicle. have a sutible sized fluid drain pan. (a suitable drain pan will be one that will hold at least 1 1/2 gal of fluid, be shallow enough to fit under vehicle, and to excede in size the shape of the transmission pan) place jack stands under your vehicle. remove transmission pan bolts. what i do is take out all of the bolts except 3 or 4 (one in each corner of the pan as to not bend the pan in any way when removing fluid) as you loosten the remaining 3 or 4 bolts fluid will start to ease its way out through the pan and transmission. this is normal and is necessary to drain the fluid. (NOTE: SOMETIMES PAN HAS BEEN GLUED INTO PLACE. YOU MIGHT NEED A PUTTY KNIFE OR SOMETHING SIMILAR TO SEPERATE THE PAN FROM THE TRANNY) ONCE PAN IS REMOVED U’LL SEE TYHE FILTER ATTATCHED TO THE TRANNY FROM UNDER THE TRANSMISSION. THERE SHOULD BE TWO BOLTS HOLDING THIS IN PLACE, OR SOMETIMES THERE PRESSED INTO PLACE. IF PRESSED, REMOVE THE STABELIZER BRACKET BOLT AND TWIST THE FILTER BACK AND FORTH , PULLING AT THE SAME TIME UNTIL FILTER IS OFF.) the next step is most important. remove old filter from pan and underside of tramsmission. you want that pan to look brand new. never install new gasket to a pan that has pieces of the old gasket still attatched to the pan or trann. they will leak everytime! the best way to remove this old gasket is to use a wire hand brush or wire wheel. degrease the pan as to not have any contaminents going back into ur transmission. install in reverse.
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get a big drain pan, jack up the car and loosen the pan bolts, let it drain down some, then rempve the rest of the bolts, take the pan off, clean it out, take the filter off and change it, put a new gasket on the pan and install the pan., let the car down , put in new tranny oil up to about the full mark, start your car(dont race the engine, just let it idle), go through all the gears, leave it running and fill the tranny and leave it down about a pint, take it for a drive, bring it back, park on a level surface, leave it running and fill it to the full mark.
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