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MrTravelDecal
Aug 07, 2009Explorer
Enjoy Rich! I am in Mill City right now and have been for 2 months. Doing volunteer work for the BLM and Marion County. Have really enjoyed it/meeting new people this summer.
This past week I have performed some maintenance to my 2000 Minnie 324V:
Drained/refilled the cooling system. I was only able to drain 16 quarts of the 30 quart capacity. The rest must have remained in the heads/water pump/heater core. I used Prestone green to refill. (so a bit more than 50% change out)
Bled the brake system by removing as much of the brake fluid from the reservoir with a turkey baster and refilling then bleeding the four individual disc calipers til clear fluid emerged.
Drained the 4R100 transmission and torque converter fluid and changed the transmission filter with a Motorcraft replacement. Refilled with the NEWEST formulation of Motorcraft MerconV ATF. I was only able to recover about 14.25 quarts of the 16 quart capacity. The rest must have been in the Transmission cooler/lines/valve body.
At 10 years old now and 32.5k miles I am pretty sure that none of this has been performed before since there are now previous records indicating such. I am 2nd owner. Feels good to have it behind me now.
This past week I have performed some maintenance to my 2000 Minnie 324V:
Drained/refilled the cooling system. I was only able to drain 16 quarts of the 30 quart capacity. The rest must have remained in the heads/water pump/heater core. I used Prestone green to refill. (so a bit more than 50% change out)
Bled the brake system by removing as much of the brake fluid from the reservoir with a turkey baster and refilling then bleeding the four individual disc calipers til clear fluid emerged.
Drained the 4R100 transmission and torque converter fluid and changed the transmission filter with a Motorcraft replacement. Refilled with the NEWEST formulation of Motorcraft MerconV ATF. I was only able to recover about 14.25 quarts of the 16 quart capacity. The rest must have been in the Transmission cooler/lines/valve body.
At 10 years old now and 32.5k miles I am pretty sure that none of this has been performed before since there are now previous records indicating such. I am 2nd owner. Feels good to have it behind me now.
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