Ok I bought my truck about 5 months ago. The guy I bought it from told me he replaced the trans with a jeep transmission, he thought it was a 45re. I originally had the 42re (i think). Now I got the numbers off the sticker thats on the trans...how can I find out for sure what trans I have? the trans tag should be attached below....thanks

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Hi,

The tranny could be a 42re, 44re, or 46re.

 

moe in wichita ks

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Thanks moe I contacted them and I sent them a pic of my trans pan and they say its probably the A 500.

 

Ok my question now is how much fluid does the A 500 hold? The reason I ask is that my pan has a slow leak and when I bought it from the guy he was adding a quart a month, since I have owned it I haven't had to add anything even though its still leaking. The fluid level is still very high but could it be that way since its got a different trans while using the same original dipstick?

 

Are you checking it in neutral and on.

Chris

 

I check it how the manual says...at operating temp let it sit for 30 sec. shift between neutral and drive I believe and put it back in neutral and then check.

 

I would just seal up the leak, simple to do:

Get under there, unbolt all of the pan bolts except one corner 1 (expect to get some on u) Support the other side once there is enough room to put a jack or something to hold it.

Now once all but the corner one are off. slowly undo the one bolt a little bit and move the jack to the middle and lower it a bit allow some of the corner to leak out. Now you have a pan full oil, either keep doing this or undo the bolt completely, and dump it would from the pan (balance or something on the jack. )

Get the appropriate oil, gasket and filter and just do the change while your add it. If you plan on doing a service soon after, maybe opt, for a tranny plug, you can buy ones to put in there, i should have done it on mine, but never got around to it.

 

I'm hoping to get rid of all of the trans fluid maybe this summer and put the amsoil ATF in. So I'll probably do it anyway. Thanks