5 speed oil level?

[Swayse]

There I was, filling my beast with diesel, when I look under the truck and see an oil spot. "Aww, it's gotta be someone else's oil, my perfect truck don't leak" I says " just a loser's oil spot that doesn't take care of his truck the way I do". Well I look anyway, "oh, crap" I says.



There is oil running down my transmission from the top. I drive home very carefully, keep waiting for my transmission to just lock up and call it good. After awhile of looking with my flash light and mirrow, I spot the problem, shift tower is loose. I have never had the thing off, thought about a short shift, but didn't want to rip into my truck. Ok, I rip into it and find the two of the bolts were loose. No big deal, I clean it up, put some black RTV on it and put it together with lock tite.



Ok, now I go to add oil. Take out the fill plug and oil comes out. Well I got some weight on the back of the truck, so I'll just jack it up. So I jack it up in the back 2" higher than stock ride height and oil still comes out. I look at the transmission and it still pointing down.



So do I level the truck to check oil, or should I level the trany? My guess is that the trany was filled with oil before it was installed on the truck, so I should level the trany. But I don't wanna run it over full. Split the difference?

 

[Joseph Donnelly]

Level the truck, more or less, not extremely critical. Just don't do it on a San Francisco hilly street Fill the NV4500 five speed with Castrol Syntorq not some generic stuff off the shelf, to the bottom of the fill hole.

 

[Swayse]

Thanks.



Talked to another Dodge guy yesterday. He had the same thing happen to him on a 2002 Dodge with the 6 speed.