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Car Forum / Isuzu Cars / May 2006'99 Trooper tranny question
My friend bought a '99 Trooper with 4-spd auto, L-H range, auto 4x4 button on the dash, etc. (V-6, PS, PB, AC, etc,etc)... a pretty nice car for the $$ he paid. Question is - Where is the dipstick for the tranny? We looked all under the hood and found nothing but a crankcase oil diptsick. Does this vehicle require crawling under there with a wrench and opening a plug to check the transmission fluid level? Axel Axel, there isn't a dipstick. You can't even open a plug up to check the level. You drain it per the manual, and then using the fill procedure specified numerous times in earlier posts on this group, you refill it after changing your filter. There should be no need to add fluid if you don't have any leaks. Hope this helps. r/ Steve > My friend bought a '99 Trooper with 4-spd auto, L-H range, auto 4x4 button > on the dash, etc. (V-6, PS, PB, AC, etc,etc)... a pretty nice car for the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Axel Hmmm... No leaks on a 7 year old 4x4 tranny?... interesting concept. The lack of a dipstick or top-off plug seems like a very poor design for a 4x4. But then, I am very old school and I go off-road a lot. So does my friend. Every machine I've ever had leaked, at least a little, here and/or there. I was thinking about buying that Trooper from my friend. I guess I will just tell him about that design and look at other vehicles. Axel > Axel, there isn't a dipstick. You can't even open a plug up to check the > level. You drain it per the manual, and then using the fill procedure [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >> Axel Well, mine's a 98, and it doesn't leak. Never did, and hasn't yet. It's got 85K miles on it. I've drained and refilled it per the manual's instructions once - and it was pretty messy, but it worked ok. Remember, quality control of these things has gotton a lot better in the last 10 years. My guess is that your friend still got a bargain, depending on the shape the Trooper's in and the number of miles on it. r/ Steve > Hmmm... No leaks on a 7 year old 4x4 tranny?... interesting concept. The > lack of a dipstick or top-off plug seems like a very poor design for a [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >>> >>> Axel Thanks GreenGas, I understand what you mean about the QC and newer tranny's, but I am not gonna feel good about those "sealed" rigs until I can see a lot more success stories over years of hard use. If you spring a leak where the cell phone doesn't work, on an icy/muddy, January Sunday, 25 miles from town, you are still in deep doo-doo unless you can add some new juice from the top (into a dipstick tube) every couple of miles. (yes, I carry a gallon of spare fluid for everything while I am in the back country... been there, broke that... more than once). My friend's '99 Trooper has 105K miles on it and he gave $3,200. It had some body damage, which he fixed fairly easily (he's a very good bodyman and a professional metals painter). He got no Owner's Manual with the car and has no idea how old the tranny fluid is in there. I searched through the older postings in here and read where some guy had blown his tranny twice after 40+K miles between juice changes and some other owner recommended changes at 20K intervals as a more effective prevention method. I called my friend and recomended he change the tranny fluid ASAP. Axel > Well, mine's a 98, and it doesn't leak. Never did, and hasn't yet. It's > got 85K miles on it. I've drained and refilled it per the manual's [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >>>> >>>> Axel |
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