A friend and I talked about it for a while and finally decided to flush our transmissions. Turned out to be fairly easy job. He and I both have '00 avalons. The job is definately easier with a friend to help. The toyota manual says transmission holds about 8 qts when dry, so we bought 2 cases(12 qts per case) of transmission oil. access is pretty easy. pull the car up on a couple of stacked 2x6's and give plenty of clearance. 10mm hex removes the drain plug. while it's dribbling out, remove the 8 10mm bolts that hold the bottom cover on the car and remove the cover. this gives access to the transmission cooler lines in the bottom of the radiator. remove the outlet hose, which is the one on the drivers side and removes with a hose clamp(pair of pliers). (the inlet attaches with a fitting). a small amout of fluid will drain out of the hose. to make it easier i found an old garden hose, small one maybe 1/2 inch or smaller, and cut a 4 ft. piece and it shoved on the outlet perfectly. now you can bring the hose out from under the car to a drain pan. put the drain plug back in and put 3 qts of oil in thru the dipstick. you will need a funnel to insert in the dipstick. now get the oil ready, the second time we removed all the caps to save time. start the car and it will start pumping the old oil into the pan, and start pouring oil into the dipstick. it pumps out as fast as you can pour it. while friend was pouring, i held the brake and ran the shifter thru all the positions to get old oil out of all the ports on the valve body, then left it in nuetral(parking brake on). after 4 qts, had to shut off car and empty our pan into a bucket, then started again and ran 3 more qts, by this time the oil still appeared a little dark, but if you put your finger in it you could tell that clean pink fluid was coming out. shut off the car, replace the hose and bottom cover and you'll have the final 2 qts to top up the transmission to the proper level. did my friends car first and it took about an hour, then mine took about 30 mins. his avy has 80k miles and mine 130k, but his oil was alot darker and dirtier than mine. we both bought them used, so i dont know if mine had been done before or if his was just used harder. anyway, it always shifted smooth and can't really tell any difference, but at least i feel alot better. lol cost about 48 dollars per case of oil and one old garden hose sacraficed.
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