Varies between 2-3 quarts depending if you drain pan with fluid hot or warm, drained for only 15 minutes or overnight and if front of truck is parked headed slightly uphill (more comes out).

Measure amount drained. The transmission has a dipstick. Go by that, not by any "refill capacity". Dipstick checking is tricky because it can take 20 or more minutes of city-suburban driving to get the fluid temp up into the 150-165 degree range at which point fluid level should be in the middle of the hot range after parking the truck on level ground for a few minutes and slowly shifting from P to R to D and back to Park again.

Would not bother fooling with the filter as it's easy for novices to break the oil tubes that need to be removed to gain access to the filter.

 

Varies between 2-3 quarts depending if you drain pan with fluid hot or warm, drained for only 15 minutes or overnight and if front of truck is parked headed slightly uphill (more comes out).

Measure amount drained. The transmission has a dipstick. Go by that, not by any "refill capacity". Dipstick checking is tricky because it can take 20 or more minutes of city-suburban driving to get the fluid temp up into the 150-165 degree range at which point fluid level should be in the middle of the hot range after parking the truck on level ground for a few minutes and slowly shifting from P to R to D and back to Park again.

Would not bother fooling with the filter as it's easy for novices to break the oil tubes that need to be removed to gain access to the filter.

Grrr8 info thank u

 

Thank you for help my friend. I don't have the means to get the truck up to change it myself. So, I'll take it to the dealer. But, as this truck was build before many at the dealer was even born, I'll use this info to hopefully educate them a bit. Hopefully they will listen. I tried it with the oil capacity, but they put 5 quarts in anyway. When I took it back to get the 1/2 quart drained I had a little heart to heart with the service adviser about how to listen to the customers better.

 

I know, he's back with another question. 😄 My '92 pickup w/87K+ miles has more than likely never had the auto transmission fluid changed. After some deliberation I've decided to just go with a pan drop, filter/screen change, gasket, and new fluid. I spoke with the service adviser who I don't have a lot of faith in (I'll explain below) says it will take 3 quarts of fluid to refill the tranny. Is this correct? I've found conflicting amounts after searching around.

Now for the reason I can't completely trust the service adviser. He's a nice guy, but just doesn't listen. I took the old girl in for an oil change last Wednesday (it's the 1st time I've been to this Toyota dealer for anything), and I told him the engine takes about 4 1/2 quarts of oil with the filter. Yeah you guessed it, he didn't listen. Now I've got to take it back so they can drain that extra 1/2 qt. out. Damnit.......

Jim

Well said.
And yes we understand it's only a half quart, and it does make much difference as to high or low, upto ⅛ let it fly anything more , may as well be a mile. (Conway thought me that one). The phase, not the concept.