Jeep Liberty, ’02. 45RFE transmission.
Dropped the trans pan and replaced the filters this weekend at 80k miles. I had last opened it up at 36k, June 04.
Since then, I have used a vacuum extractor to remove fluid from the pan at each oil change. This worked out to having done it 8 times over that 44k miles. Each time removes a little over 2 quarts.
Trans capacity is 14 quarts, so the entire capacity has been added, plus a little.
The pan was really clean. There was just a small amount of paste to wipe off the pan magnet and hardly anything in the rest of the pan itself.
In addition to the flat intake filter, I replaced the small spin-on return filter as I did previously. This filter is only recommended to replace at 90k miles, so that DOES seem to be overkill. I cut it open and there was no evidence of any crud.
I will keep doing what I’m doing – seems to be working.
Dropped the trans pan and replaced the filters this weekend at 80k miles. I had last opened it up at 36k, June 04.
Since then, I have used a vacuum extractor to remove fluid from the pan at each oil change. This worked out to having done it 8 times over that 44k miles. Each time removes a little over 2 quarts.
Trans capacity is 14 quarts, so the entire capacity has been added, plus a little.
The pan was really clean. There was just a small amount of paste to wipe off the pan magnet and hardly anything in the rest of the pan itself.
In addition to the flat intake filter, I replaced the small spin-on return filter as I did previously. This filter is only recommended to replace at 90k miles, so that DOES seem to be overkill. I cut it open and there was no evidence of any crud.
I will keep doing what I’m doing – seems to be working.
