UPDATE. All done! Spent most of the day messing with it, but I'm happy now. Here's what I did....
Pan drop with new filter. Fluid looked kind of dark. Refill with 5 qts. of Mercon V. Ran car for 15 minutes on jackstands, alternating from 1,2,3,OD and R.
Shut car off, drain and fill again with 4...
Thanks everyone. Hopefully we get a nice day this week and I can "Get 'er done". I'm not having any problems with the trans. Just doing for PM. I'm buying a whole case of Mercon V. So maybe I could squeeze 3 changes out of it? We will see. Only thing that sucks about this trans is it has no...
I have a 2002 Explorer. This week I want to drop the transmission pan, change the filter, clean the pan, new gasket etc. and refill. I understand that you only actually change like 5 qts of fluid when doing this. So after that, I want to drive the car for a bit and then just undo the drain plug...