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Location of Tranmission plug on 90 Ford Taurus Wagon
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Where is the plug to drain the transmission fluid on a 1990 Ford Taurus Wagon?

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April 10 9:03 PM (1 minute and 51 seconds later)
         
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 Who told you it had one? It doesn't. You can drop the whole pan but that will get you only about 20% of the total fluid capacity.

The only way to get it all out is to use a fluid exchanger machine, often called a transmission flush machine. It ulilized the cars own pump to replace all of the fluid. A little further advice is, if that car has 100k or more and hasn't already been changed on a regular basis, you cause more problems than you will fix by doing that.

 

Edited by Tech501 on April 10 2005 at 9:05 PM
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April 10 9:06 PM (3 minutes and 5 seconds later)
         
Reply to Tech501's Post: So, how can I change out the tranny fluid?
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April 10 9:13 PM (5 minutes and 29 seconds later)
         
Thanks. I don't think it's been serviced, so should I just leave it like it is? The tranny fluid looks really nasty.
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