Civic 2004 Transmission Oil Change: Where is the outlet ?

Hi,
I crawled under my 2004 Civic 4door LX yesterday planning to change
the transmission fluid and got completely confused.

I did not see any obvious bolt to loosen. Things are kind of
backwards; even the oil filter is on the back of the engine. I did not
find any thing that looked like a transmission fluid pan.

Is there somewhere on the net that I can find the "plan" of the bottom?


I have changed the transmission fluid on my other cars so obviously I
thought this one would be similar!!!

Hope you can help !!!

-Roger

Great drawings appear at www.hondaautomotiveparts.com .

If this is a manual transmission, I would expect the bolt to
have a 3/8-inch square fitting on the end. You put your
3/8-inch breaker bar (um, ratchet, for people with money to
throw away on tools?) into it and free the bolt.

Buy yourself at least a Chilton's manual for your car.
Twenty bucks or maybe less.

> wrote

> Hi,
> I crawled under my 2004 Civic 4door LX yesterday planning
> to change
> the transmission fluid and got completely confused.
>
> I did not see any obvious bolt to loosen. Things are kind
> of
> backwards; even the oil filter is on the back of the
> engine. I did not
> find any thing that looked like a transmission fluid pan.
>
> Is there somewhere on the net that I can find the "plan"
> of the bottom?
>
>
> I have changed the transmission fluid on my other cars so
> obviously I
> thought this one would be similar!!!
>
> Hope you can help !!!
>
> -Roger
>

The drawings were good. I was able to change the transmission fluid
with no problems. I did find some metal particles stuck to the magnet.
I wiped it clean. I used Honda's ATF fluid.

I will go ahead an buy a Honda manual. That should help in the future.


So, thank you !!!
..

" wrote:
>
> The drawings were good. I was able to change the transmission fluid
> with no problems. I did find some metal particles stuck to the magnet.
> I wiped it clean.

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If you change it again in a few days you'll find a bunch of new
particles (it looks more like dark grey paint), plus you'll be way
closer to refreshing _all_ the fluid.

'Curly'