Soooo.... you put fluid in until it runs out the top fill hole, and you're done. Right? Well, what if your transmission is installed, with the tail down in the natural, running position? On my car, that's downward at 5.1 degrees.

I was thinking about this when I filled mine. I didn't have things buttoned up, and the tail of the trans was actually on a jack with the trans sitting about level. I filled it. Then I slid the cross member in, and lowered the trans onto it. Quite a bit of fluid ran out the tail (as I was scrambling for a container). At the running angle, I don't know where the fluid would be with respect to the fill hole, but if the trans was leveled out again, it would be low.

Do you fill it level, or fill it at the running angle? And if you get it right, who is to say if that's right when you go up a hill?

Side note along those lines: We went to San Francisco on vacation, and went hill climbing in the rental car. Some of those roads around the peak of the hill are incredibly steep, it was scary driving on them. I was wondering how they even paved them, the kind of concrete I know would have sloughed off was soon as they poured it. So, how would a cabureted car go up them? I gotta think those angles would really jack the float level.

Read the manual and fill it with as much as they recommend. I think its 2.8 quarts. I filled mine through the top by removing the shifter plate.

Read the manual and fill it with as much as they recommend. I think its 2.8 quarts. I filled mine through the top by removing the shifter plate.

i was going to do mine that way but, it looked like it wouldnt drain in. so i just filled mine before i screwed on my floor patch. I actaully did this 3 times. I started with the gm syncro fluid but now i have the amsoil syncro fluid. My tranny is SMOOTH:thumbsup:

I just used a funnel and 3/8 tube and held it in there while someone poured it in the funnel. Pretty simple.