Where,s the dipstick?
Captain
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From: Western PA
Probably because the tranny is so specific on the level that the engineers don't trust a simple stick to read the level. Plus, how many owners would just pull the stick, with the engine off, see that it's low/high and add/remove fluid. Next thing you know it's in for warranty work. If it's sealed, one less thing for us to maintain.
Professional
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From: Deadmonton, AB
There has to be another variable missing that is needed to compute volume/level. For instance, I could tell you I measured a container of water at 75*F, and you can readily look up the density of water. How are those two facts going to give you the volume of the water in the container? Could be a coffee cup, a swimming pool, or the ocean that was measured. Perhaps mass would be the other variable in the formula you are thinking of? But we can't know mass of the fluid in the trans.
I'm not saying is isn't possible to measure this way, I'm just wondering what else it is based off of...
Rob
I'm not saying is isn't possible to measure this way, I'm just wondering what else it is based off of...
Rob
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How would it be less accurate? Assuming the rest of the steps were the same, checking the level by pulling a dipstick and taking a reading on the stick versus opening a filler plug to observe the level gets you the same reading of the level. It's just less messy with a dipstick. And you don't have to get under the truck to access the fill plug.
Rob
Rob
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They can still have the fill plug in the same location, at the same height, not allowing overfill. But when you are just checking the level you don't need to be under the truck and get messy.
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Talk is cheap, how about somebody post a video from start to finish how to check it. I would do it, BUT, AtomicDog would yell at me for posting caveman drawings because i dont own one of those fancy shamancy high tech camera`s (lol)
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One can still overfill, even with the plug. If you fill it and plug it when the temp is too cold (not to the procedure), when hot the fluid will expand and possibly overfill.
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I`m with you Rob, i think the plug check is bullsh!t. (more dumbing down of america) And when they say check it when the vehicle is level, how specific are they being with that... most everybody KNOWS that these trucks dont sit level... so it would be incorrect vs correct to check it on the ground, or on the lift...??? A big guy sure the hell isnt going to crawl under these trucks without lifting them up. And not everybody has a hoist in their back yard either. Dunno, just like everything else today, they dont want you to be able to do anything for yourself... even if you`re qualified.