Originally Posted by dave1251
Originally Posted by ls1mike
The beauty is they have a drain plug and the pan is easy to drop.
If you drain the pan you get about 6.5 quarts out. The complete 6L90E system holds 12.4 quarts.
You can do a pan drop and filter swap every 10,000 miles and never have dirty fluid.
Easy Peasy.
I hate to say it, you murdered them.
Mike I have to disagree there was no murder committed. 200K miles is a lifetime for any automatic transmission. Just because it's common for a transmission to go beyond this does not equal it's a expectation.
If a drain and fill is required during every oil change for any transmission this means GM makes dung and does not deserve anyone's business and should close up now.
I'm not sure he's saying that it's needed every other oil change--just that, if one wanted the easy way out, just change half the fluid that often, and it'll simply never be in there long enough to get dirty.
Or one could elect to run to the end of the fluid's lifespan, and then have to do a full oil exchange, which likely is more work (pulling cooler lines, pumping fluid through, etc). More work than a simple pan drop (and still requires a pan drop at that).
Originally Posted by ls1mike
The beauty is they have a drain plug and the pan is easy to drop.
If you drain the pan you get about 6.5 quarts out. The complete 6L90E system holds 12.4 quarts.
You can do a pan drop and filter swap every 10,000 miles and never have dirty fluid.
Easy Peasy.
I hate to say it, you murdered them.
Mike I have to disagree there was no murder committed. 200K miles is a lifetime for any automatic transmission. Just because it's common for a transmission to go beyond this does not equal it's a expectation.
If a drain and fill is required during every oil change for any transmission this means GM makes dung and does not deserve anyone's business and should close up now.
I'm not sure he's saying that it's needed every other oil change--just that, if one wanted the easy way out, just change half the fluid that often, and it'll simply never be in there long enough to get dirty.
Or one could elect to run to the end of the fluid's lifespan, and then have to do a full oil exchange, which likely is more work (pulling cooler lines, pumping fluid through, etc). More work than a simple pan drop (and still requires a pan drop at that).