Where the hell is the fill plug on the 89 model ??

and any advise for filling it ?

I'm battleing with this one..

 

The fill plug is up and to the left of the drain plug, sorry I cant show you exact but I do have a good tip on filling. I got a windshield washer system from the junkyard for $5. I put the Honda MTF in the reservoir, run a tube to the tranny fill hole and hook the pump up to the battery. This way pumps it in MUCH quicker than using a funnel and a tube.

 

beta 13 that is an awsome idea. pump will burn out if u used it alot but that must be sweet i gotta make myself one!!

have fun with the bolt its fuggin tight and a socket wont go in there.

use the 2 spanner trick
i always crack the bolt when the trani is out of the car

good luck

 

I'm not sure if the '89 is different from my '91 Si, but here is what I did:
since I couldn't get enough access to the fill plug to get it off (I should have
loosened it with the transmission out of the car), I took a good look at the fill
plug and realised that the bottom of it was at about the exact same level as
the bottom of the axle input hole (pass. side). So, I pulled the axle shaft inner
joint out of the tranny, and snaked in a length of heater core coolant hose into
the axle opening and filled it with the prescribed amount of transmission fluid;
upon removal of the hose, only a very small amount of fluid leaked out. Pop the
shaft back in and you're in business. I can't clearly recollect if I popped the axle
out before or after I replaced the lower ball joint into the lower control arm; you
may have to do this for this method to work.

good luck

 

Yeah, I forgot to mention, we give the pump breaks, I've done three fill-ups with the same pump and it hasn't burnt all the way out yet. On the second fillup we didn't give it any breaks and it began to smoke. I didn't choose a very good one though, I got it out of the back of a DSM. I imagine front pumps are probably better since they go to two sprayers.

 

I forgot the link, But a mod on the EG forum. had pics of it. He just unscrewed the VSS and then you take it out. opens a big hole. just put a funal down there and pour and fill. nice and easy.

 

You could also go to Checker and buy a little hand pump device that screws onto the top of a standard quart of oil. It works well, but if you're a wuss like me your hand will cramp up as you pump several quarts of oil into the tranny.