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I don’t know if I’d buy one now or later, but if I were you I’d buy a cheap mighty vac. Something to suck the transmission fluid up through that dipstick tube.
I wouldn’t want to do a pan drop and filter replace every 40,000 miles. Transmission filters just don’t get that dirty...honestly some vehicles the filter is not even replaceable and I’ve personally driven one of those cars 300,000 without transmission trouble. I’ve never seen a tranny filter clogged or even really dirty (to be honest).
So I’d maybe drop that pan once, change that filter for piece of mind, clean that break in metal off those magnets for piece of mind...then seal it up good and simple do a fluid exchange yearly through that dipstick tube. Easy. Thing will probably be the cleanest Dodge Caravan transmission on the planet.
I wouldn’t want to do a pan drop and filter replace every 40,000 miles. Transmission filters just don’t get that dirty...honestly some vehicles the filter is not even replaceable and I’ve personally driven one of those cars 300,000 without transmission trouble. I’ve never seen a tranny filter clogged or even really dirty (to be honest).
So I’d maybe drop that pan once, change that filter for piece of mind, clean that break in metal off those magnets for piece of mind...then seal it up good and simple do a fluid exchange yearly through that dipstick tube. Easy. Thing will probably be the cleanest Dodge Caravan transmission on the planet.