Not best, but optimum Transmission?
Here's the dipstick pulled out and wiped from my 727.
What were you saying about low is low, full is full, and 20% down from the top line"?!?!!? WTH does that even MEAN??
Let me explain. The word that says FULL on the dipstick in the picture, it is just to the right of a stamped rib that forms a line. That stamped line indicates full. 20% down from that means that the trans fluid capacity was less than full and the top edge of the fluid was just to the left of the FULL line mark. Not as far down (to the left) as the ADD 1 PINT line. 20% down would be 1/5th of the distance toward the ADD 1 PINT line, but more close to the FULL line than to the ADD 1 PINT line. If the fluid level were at or very close to the ADD 1 PINT line, I personally would not add a quart (you might however or more), no ... I would not do that. I would add ... a pint. Now a pint is 2/4ths, or 1/2 of a quart. It's also very close to 6/12ths of a quart, or roughly 50% of a quart. And that's how much I would add, a pint. I wouldn't add 2 pints either, especially since the dipstick says add 1 pint.
But since I measured it, and it was between those 2 lines (closer to full line than the ADD 1 PINT line remember), that indicates to me at least that it was not low. Maybe I should have gotten a teaspoon and "topped off." But I did not. And I'm pretty sure the trans is not "fried" because the level was between the two marks and not at or above the FULL line on the dipstick.
Lastly, when I pulled that dipstick out of the trans cold, it was above the full line (to the right of the full line as pictured). I hesitate to mention an estimate of how far to the right so I don't get lambasted and have to explain that amount too. Let's just say, "it was way far above (to the right) of the FULL line.
I realize I may be wrong in this explanation since I have never rebuilt a transmission. FWIW.
7milesout
Here's the dipstick pulled out and wiped from my 727.
What were you saying about low is low, full is full, and 20% down from the top line"?!?!!? WTH does that even MEAN??
Let me explain. The word that says FULL on the dipstick in the picture, it is just to the right of a stamped rib that forms a line. That stamped line indicates full. 20% down from that means that the trans fluid capacity was less than full and the top edge of the fluid was just to the left of the FULL line mark. Not as far down (to the left) as the ADD 1 PINT line. 20% down would be 1/5th of the distance toward the ADD 1 PINT line, but more close to the FULL line than to the ADD 1 PINT line. If the fluid level were at or very close to the ADD 1 PINT line, I personally would not add a quart (you might however or more), no ... I would not do that. I would add ... a pint. Now a pint is 2/4ths, or 1/2 of a quart. It's also very close to 6/12ths of a quart, or roughly 50% of a quart. And that's how much I would add, a pint. I wouldn't add 2 pints either, especially since the dipstick says add 1 pint.
But since I measured it, and it was between those 2 lines (closer to full line than the ADD 1 PINT line remember), that indicates to me at least that it was not low. Maybe I should have gotten a teaspoon and "topped off." But I did not. And I'm pretty sure the trans is not "fried" because the level was between the two marks and not at or above the FULL line on the dipstick.
Lastly, when I pulled that dipstick out of the trans cold, it was above the full line (to the right of the full line as pictured). I hesitate to mention an estimate of how far to the right so I don't get lambasted and have to explain that amount too. Let's just say, "it was way far above (to the right) of the FULL line.
I realize I may be wrong in this explanation since I have never rebuilt a transmission. FWIW.
7milesout
