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Question posted by jeffy699 on March 18th, 2013

Accidental Transmission Fluid Drain

In my rush to change the oil on the car I accidentally removed the transmission fluid plug. What do I do?

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Answer #1: Posted by roadrunnertim on March 18th, 2013 11:36 AM

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This a bad mistake! It's very difficult to add tranny fluid to your vehicle. You have two options. The first option is to tow the car to a garage and have them refill it for you. Not sure if you want to do that, but it will save you the hassle of trying to do it yourself.

Option two is complicated. The way a garage adds fluid to your car is by adding it through a pressurized hose that pumps the fluid into the drain plug. They take out the smaller inner plug and insert an adapter there to fill the tranny.

For you to do that, you will have to get a ride from a friend and take your tranny drain plug to your local auto parts store to see if they have a manual fluid pump device that you can rent or buy. You will have to attach a fitting and a hose to the inner drain plug hole and pump it by hand. Show them the drain plug and see if they have a fitting that will go inside that inner hole.

This can be done, but it will be a pain to get the right fitting to go into the inner drain plug hole and you will have to measure how much fluid you took out in the first place. Do NOT put the old fluid back into the car and be sure to put the exact amount back into the car that you removed.

Hope I explained the procedure well enough so that you can figure out how to do it yourself. Just tell the guy at the auto parts store what you did and he'll probably know what you need to undo this mistake on your part.

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