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In this segment I'm going to cover disconnecting the automatic transmission lines. We just
finished draining the vehicle, I reinserted the petcock and tightened it up so it won't
drip while the pan's being removed. I removed the pan of antifreeze so as to not contaminate
with the A.T.F. and slid a different pan underneath the vehicle. Now, what I'm going to do is
disconnect one line at a time and a tip, if you've got a couple of bolts, there approximately
the same size as the lines connecting to the radiator, you can use these for temporary
plugs in the lines. I have flexible rubber lines that come up so I can not only put these
in and use them for temporary plugs, I can also raise the lines up and get them above
the height of the transmission. Just gravity alone will stop the fluid from leaking out.
Once we disconnect them we want to drain, we want to drain the fluid out of the radiator
itself, the cooler assembly. We don't want to drain the fluid out of the transmission.
I'm going to disconnect one line at a time, insert a bolt in it as a plug and we just
want to slide them in there and lightly tighten it down. We don't want to clap them on there
real hard. We don't want to the grooves in the bolt, the thread in the bolt to cut into
the rubber on the inside of the lines. There just a temporary plug. The clamps on this
one is original style and its actually a slotted screwdriver, 10mm head on it. I'm just going
to loosen those up. Once I've got it lose, I'm going to twist it back and forth to break
it free from the fitting and just slide it off. Once disconnected, I'm going to hold
it up high so gravity stops it. I'll insert a temporary plug and then lightly tighten
it down. Then I'm going to slide up under the plug wires and make the plug wires as
a bracket to kind of hold the line up above the height of the transmission and gravity
alone will assist me in keeping that from draining any further. In your pan placement,
you want to make sure you've got it down below the flash shield because the fluid is going
to run down and across the splash shield and then into your pan. After you've got one line
removed, go ahead and disconnect the other one. Same procedure, we want to loosen the clamp
up real loose and then break the line free by moving it back and forth. If you can't
do it with your hands, just lightly grip it with a pair of pliers and just twist it back
and forth to break it free from the fitting and then you can slide it off. Just wiggling
it back and forth as your applying gentle pressure. You don't want to use an up and
down or side to side, just a twisting motion. We don't want to put any stress on that fitting
in the transmission. This is especially true when we put the new transmission back in.
Once I've got the other one free, I went ahead and inserted a plug in it and tightened it
down and I'll just stick it up behind the back side of the cam with other one, kind
of hold it up out of the way and let gravity help as well. Please watch our next segment.
We'll cover removing the lower radiator hose.