This diagram (and the videos on youtube) make it look as if changing the transmission fluid on your 1989 Ford Ranger takes about seven minutes. But of course, they weren't accounting for me. I decided to try it at night, in the snow when it was about 20 degrees. It wasn't until I had drained the old fluid (and passed the point of no return) That I realised that 80W 90 oils at 20 degrees Fahrenheit has approximately the same consistency as molasses.
The nice man at the auto parts store sold me a pump, which he said would be the quick and easy way to get the fluid back into the tranny. Back home the pump broke with the second stroke. I went back to the auto parts store a second time. And a third time. None of his ideas or gizmos worked. The oils was too think. After 4 hours of trying I finally managed to fill the transmission by putting the oil in a squeeze bottle, connecting the bottle to a tube and running the tube into the transmission. In the process I drank about a quart of oil.
What an adventure.
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