01M Filter Change - Kansas City TDI

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01M Filter Change

First of all pull the skid plate . Then with an a llen wrench remove the drain plug.

Then put the allen wrench up in the hole the drain plug came out of, and remove the

stand pipe. This is to drain the pan thoroughly.

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This is wha t the stand pipe looks like after you remove it. The stand pipe is

orange in this pic.

There is a bracket to protect the front of the trans pan tha t I didnt get a picture

of. It has four 16mm bolts. Remove it to get access to the front two pan bolts.

Then use a 10 mm socket to pull out the 4 pan bolts.
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Then youll see the filter. Just grab it and pull it off. Sometimes you may find it sitting

in the pan. Dont worry, the pan holds it in place, and it just fell out when you

removed the pan.

When you pull the filter out, usua lly the filter seal (orange) will stay inside the valve

body. Pry it out with a screwdriver.


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Dont forget to remove your old filter seal or youll end up with two of them in

there. This was a valve body someone shipped to me and whoever serviced it

before just shoved the new filter up in there with the new seal and left the old one in

there too.

Make sure your new filter comes with a filter seal then seat it up into the valve body.

Clean the pan out thoroughly.


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In my hand are the torque limiters (spacers) that go inside the holes that the pan

bolts pass through. They limit the amount of crush on the pan gasket. Some of the

new gaskets do not come with them so you must change them over into the new

gasket. To do this, just sit the gasket on a hard surface, sit the spacer on the hole

then shove it in with the handle end o f a screwdriver. A little lube doesnt hurt either.

If you leave these out, the pan w ill leak.

Heres a new ga sket with no spacers in it.


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Heres one in the pan gasket

Break open the filter. They are rea l good at trapping broken pieces. The pump

suction pulls stuff up in there. So if you dont break it open you might be missing

some evidence of damage. This one the trans is shot!
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Also take a good look into the pan. Use a flashlight to look for metal or clutch

material. This one ha s a b roken chunk, but notice the fine metal in the bottom where

there is no fluid. This trans is sho t even without the chunk.

Expect the fluid to be dark. This just means it needs changed, but if its

burnt, then you may have some clutch damage inside the trans. Expect the magnet

to have a little fuzz on it. This trans w as Ok, it just needed a little luvin on the valve

body. See Failure Analysis page for clutch damage pics.

Well if you get the filter sea l out, put a new filter in with a seal on it, put the torque

limiters into the new gasket, seat the gasket on the pan properly (meaning even),

then tighten the pan, by hand. Understand that over tightening the pan bolts will not

crush the gasket more. All over tightening will do is rip the threads out of the case

which will then necessitate insta lling a heli-coil in the pan bo lt hole. So tighten till the

torque limiter is squeezed then go about 1/8 turn more.

Reassemble as you took it apart then follow the correct fill sequence.

In the lower left you see the fill tube. Its accessed from under the car. To get to it

youll have to have the belly pan/skid plate off, thenremove the protective bracket at

the front of the trans, then break the red cap off. Youll need a new red cap. Then

youll need some kind of pump to pump the fluid up into the fill tube o r a funnel with a

hose on it to pipe it down to the fill tube.


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All this is very annoying to me so I fill this trans through the g38 hole. To fill through

the G38 hole just remove the breather, then remove the bolt to the sensor and pull

out the G38. No need to uplug it, but dont yank on the wires. Use a long pair of

needle nose or just work it out gently with your hands.

Then using a long transmission style funnel, then pour in the fluid. The ba ttery is

out in this pic but it doesnt need to be .

FILL PROCEDURE

Its slightly different than you might find elsewhere. OEM procedure isnt wrong but

its confusing and lots of folks end up slightly low. With filter change youll need 3

liters but its best to have 4 on hand just in case. With valve body change youll

probably need 4 liters but its best to have 5 on hand just in case. Quite a bit of the
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converter fluid will drain out when the valve body is pulled. A complete fill with an

empty trans and empty converter is 5.3 liters according to the book. A

used trans will never be empty though.

1. Car must be cold, and level. I do this on the ground.

2. After pan drop install filter and s tand pipe. Then put check/drain plug in a few turns

by hand.

3. Pour in 3 liters.

4. Install scan tool, turn key on and get scan tool communicating with trans computer.

5. Start engine.

6. Pull up data for trans temp.

7. If trans was just replaced then put in another 3 liters. If you just serviced it then

pull check plug and immediately re-install it. If fluid doesnt come out add another

1/2 liter. The pump will be filling the converter w ith fluid from the pan and you dont

want the pan to run dry. I use a small shallow pan to keep fluid from running on

the floor.

8. When data show s 35 degrees Celsius then pull check plug. Allow fluid to drain out

till it is not a steady stream anymore. Meaning when if starts glugging instead of

running out in a steady stream, then reinstall the plug and tighten it.

#8 is whe re I think folks go wrong. They leave the check plug out till fluid stops

running out and this makes the trans slightly low. What you need to understand is

that there are fluid pressure exhausts on the valve body and spinning components in

the main body of the trans. Both of these w ill throw fluid into the pan making waves

and splashes. So the fluid will continue to drip out even when fluid is low, below the

stand pipe. The waves and splashes make fluid keep coming out. Dont do

this. Watch for the first glug then plug it.

If you used my method of top filling through the G38 its likely you triggered a MAF

code, so clear it and reassemble the top and your done.

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