How to change automatic transmission fluid of a Toyota Camry 2002?

Answer 1

You will need at least 5 quarts of Transmission Fluid, new transmission filter and new pan gasket, safety glasses, silicon gloves, hex 10mm, wrench 10 in metric system, oil syringe.

Put your car on the parking breaks. Disconnect the negative cable from the battery. Lift the car up and put it on jacks. wait the transmission fluid cools down (temperature can be so high that it will easily damage your skin). You should work with oil really careful, don't contiminate the floor and environment. Use a special plastic or metal oil pan. The oil pan should be wide enough to prevent going oil on the floor. After that loose the drain bolt and then remove it comlitely, drain out all the fluid out of transmission body. It requires about 10-45 minutes depending on temperature around. After take the pan away and crowl inder your car. Now you have to replace the transmission filter. To do that remove all bolts keeping attached the transmission bolts. be careful when you are removing last ones. Because there is still a little bit of fluid on the pan. Always use safety glasses. Remove the pan. Now you need to clean the pan from small metal parts amd sedimenations. To get a special liquid (it's called degrease liquid) in any auto part store. Be careful with small magnets on the inners side of the pan. Mark it's positions before cleaning, you should put magnets on the same places. When you cleaned the pan, install carefully magnets back on the previously marked positions. Now you have to remove transmission filter, you will see it right after you removed the pan, it is attached with 3 bolts. Remove the filter and install new one. Be extremelly carefullt working around transmission it has many fragile parts. After that put the pan back with a new pan gasket. It's better to use a torgue wrench but if you don't have it it's ok. Just make sure that you tightened everything properly. Put the drain bolt back and tighten it.

Now you need need to drain out the transmission fluid from differential (if you have it) because Camry has independent rooms for the tranmission and differential. Loose the differential drain bolt and remove it, don't forget to the oil pan. Wait about 20 minutes. Then put the drain bolt back and tighten it. You have to find the bolt to check and diffential liquidl. It's on of the diffrenttial sides. When you find it remove. Use the iol syringe to add fluid in the diffrential. When it's enough it will start to come out of the differential throught the check level/add bolt. Wait when it stops to come out. Then out the bolt back (diffrential requires about 1.6 quarts of transmission fluid).

After that add about 2.4 quarts of transmission fluid in the transmission throught the dipstick channel. Connect the cable, wait 5-10 minutes to let the fluid spred within the transmission. Start the engine and wait 1 minute, check the transmission diptstick level, if it's under minimum add more, the level should be somewhere in between min and max levels. Be extremelly carefullt working around working engine. If the level is too low add a lit bit, everytime add a little bit and wait 1-2 minites to prevent overfilling the transmission which can cause damage.

You must dispose the fluid according to federal and state laws.