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, Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:39:31
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Yup, you drain the trans fluid through that hole in the bottom of the case. It's a good idea to drive the car a little bit first, so the fluid is warm and the dirt particles are stirred up and sloshing around freely.
To refill, you take out the plug on top of the case (kind of on the driver's side.) It has a square recess in it, and in mine I can just shove a ratchet extension in this and it fits well enough to unscrew the plug.
There's another plug kind of on the side of the case, with a protruding square peg for the head. This is the level plug. You can remove it with a box wrench. The idea is to fill up the trans until fluid starts to dribble out of the level plug; that's how you know it's full enough. (Actual capacity is 1.8 US quarts or something like that.) However, since on most older Sonetts the trans lube serves the secondary purpose of lubricating your garage floor : ) a lot of people go ahead and dump two full quarts of lube into the box, to provide a little reserve capacity. The experts have told us the extra 0.2 quart won't hurt anything as long as your shaft seals are OK (and if they aren't, you're going to have problems anyway.)
Shocks are easy to replace other than the usual problem of hardware rusting in place -- the top nut is readily accessible from the luggage compartment -- but if your car is sitting too low it's unlikely that the shocks are the cause. Sonetts are fairly notorious for rear spring sag, and if your car really is riding too low (as opposed to the new exhaust just hanging too low) that could be your problem. Some people recommend fitting a set of 96 rear springs instead of the Sonett springs -- this raises the rear ride height about 1" and supposedly makes it firmer as well (although I haven't tried it.)
The rear springs are easy to remove too -- just unbolt the stop strap, jack up the car, pull down the axle until the spring is free, and take the spring out by hand (no fancy-schmantzy spring compressor needed.) But I wouldn't go to the bother unless you're SURE the springs are the problem -- you might just need to check the installation, hangers, etc. of the exhaust system itself.
, Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:39:31
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