jmai86

My driveway is sloped and I'm always paranoid about getting the car level before checking/replacing fluids (tranny, oil).

What reference point on the car should I use for leveling it with a bubble level?

Car is a Del Sol btw

Former User

Checking fluid levels while parked on a level street or parking lot should be fine.

Dc4LsTeG

iTrader: (7)

X2 just check it somewhere that's level.

jmai86

Thanks yeah I ended up just doin that instead of being too lazy to move the car, haha.

Question though, when I unbolted the fill hole in order to stick my finger in and check, fluid GUSHED out, like maybe a quart or so.

Is it possible the previous owner of the car filled the tranny using the vent tube on top? It's this little metal tube with a rubber cap on it, with an arrow. I don't see how it could've been so overfilled! UNLESS I did something terribly, newbishly wrong.

Former User

The PO overfilled the transmission, probably by adding fluid through the VSS hole.