Re: Reading Tranny fluid level [message #364866 is a reply to message #364862] |
Mon, 21 June 2021 08:46 |
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Matt Colie
Messages: 8547 Registered: March 2007 Location: S.E. Michigan
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RF_Burns wrote on Mon, 21 June 2021 07:48I agree with you Larry. We can put a man on the moon, but we can't design an accurate way to read transmission fluid!
Not only is it hard to see the contrast of the fluid against the stick, but the curve in the tube assures the fluid will get smeared along the stick! Then if you need to add some fluid, you have now covered the inside of the dipstick tube with fluid, so good luck reading that!
I drilled a couple of small holes at the Add and Full marks. If there is fluid in the Add hole, but not in the Full hole, then it is somewhere between Add and Full.
The usual response I get from Engineers is "works as designed!" To which I reply "But not designed to work"
Don't get me started on grease nipples (zerks).
Bruce,
A man last walked on the moon 40 years ago......
I can tell you why the OE engineers all say things like that....
They drive lease cars that they don't service.
When they do work on something like a "Level Indicator" (aka dipstick), they do it in a clean quiet lab with all new stuff. The best one (and you will like this) a lot of the test and mule vehicle are drive between heated garages and never with the driver wearing snow boots.
I found it helps if you make the surface of the stick rough by sanding it. Then the level is where it is shiny and it us usually pretty clear.
Matt - has to go out and put wheels on his 50yo Gravely.
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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