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How much transmission fluid capacity for 2008 Lexus ES 350

dreyfus

I'm not certain of the actual capacity, but I used all 12 quarts when I swapped out my ATF 95,000 miles ago. It's expensive stuff.

Clutchless

Here is a link to the information from the Toyotanation forum on the Camry which has the same transmission. http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/10...fo-sticky.html

It also has many other maintenance tips.

ESh

The capacity is 6,94 qt.

I used 12 qt too but I did it through the return pipe.

chuyrobles

I don't mean t doubt you, but it's gotta be more than 7 qts. I used a pump, also through the return line, to pump ATF into the transmission while the trany pumped out the old stuff. The ATF didn't start to look pretty in red until about 10 qts and I continued flushing until I had flushed out about 11.5 quarts. Then leveled it out with a temp gun, then added 200ml at the end as the book recommends.

hypervish

Just looked it up in the repair manual, apparently the fluid capacity is very low on these.

PERFORMED REPAIR/ FILL AMOUNT
Replacement of transaxle (a new torque converter is used) : 5.3 liters (5.6 US qts, 4.7 lmp. qts)
Replacement of transaxle (the torque converter is reused) : 3.4 liters (3.6 US qts, 3.0 lmp. qts)
Removal & installation of oil pan (including oil drain) & Removal & installation of drive shaft : 2.8 liters (3.0 US qts, 2.5 lmp. qts)
Removal & installation of valve body : 3.2 liters (3.4 US qts, 2.8 lmp. qts)
Removal & installation of torque converter : 4.8 liters (5.1 US qts, 4.2 lmp. qts)
Repair of oil leakage and removal of oil cooler and cooler hose : 0.5 liters (0.5 US qts, 0.4 lmp. qts)

chuyrobles

Oil cooler? Our 07 don't have one, unless it's referring to the ATF fluid reservoir in the radiator. But, you can't remove the reservoir from the radiator.

How do you add all that up when flushing through the transmission-radiator lines? I flush till the ATF color starts to look translucent red. Or, about 11-12 quarts.

dreyfus

No, but you can remove the outflow line to the radiator. That's what I did, measuring and replacing all the fluid pumped out (about two quarts at a time) until it looked like new fluid.