I still wondering if my truck 05 - 1500 needs the gasket or just RTV ??

 

I guess you COULD use a rubber gasket if the kit comes with one but mine didnt. The OEM material is RTV. Same as on the rear pumpkin cover too

See comment above

 

How many quarts of fluid did you guys use to flush the tranny? I was gonna buy a case of 12 quarts of some cheap atf+4 to flush and valvoline atf+4 for the final fill.

 

Forgot to mention I did a pan drop and filters a couple weeks ago. Hope the filters are still good

 

I used 17 quarts when I did mine

 

well I finally changed it, since this was my question I felt I owed you guys a reply

I am in no way any type of weekend mechanic, I was pretty intimidated especially scared about over torquing the pan bolts and snapping one off, I ended up using 13 quarts of fluid total and that was even wasting about 2-3 IMHO, I'm pretty cheap and it was killing me watching that red fluid run out of the tube...lol

the biggest issue I had was pulling the little seal, it started to rip apart, I didn't know it was rubber over a metal ring, I read to be a little careful cause the AL is soft, but I had to pry it out with a home made screwdriver with a notch cut out of the center.....

here is a close up of the seal, by the way, the guys at NAPA told me there are 2 different Transmissions for 3 rd gen trucks, mine took the long flat pan and the spin on filter, and yes, its a WIX filter now at NAPA, the other model trans takes a slightly smaller square type filter and no other additional spin on filter

I used Castrol ATF + 4 cause that was the only cheaper option over house fluids, Fluids ran about $ 80 +/- and the filters were $ 37, my filters came with a gasket, but I still used a little RTV between the pan and the gasket

thanks to all those that provided tips and guidance, especially dirtytdog for the shortcuts......I noticed I only got 5 +/- qts out the first time and about 2 left over in the pan, the fluid stopped flowing almost all together and it scared me to keep it running DRY....dropped the pan and got another 2 out , refilled with 7 qts and got about 5-6 out the second time and put 7 more qts in and the fluid was almost all red on the 3 rd cycle so I stopped, I was pretty close cause I didn't have to add any and fluid level is correct on the dip stick.
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pic of the seal
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Glad you got it all done and put back together