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Originally Posted by HemiEd
My late racing buddy, Rucker Massey was the owner of a top transmission shop, and built racing converters.
He taught me early on, just like you said, all you need is a good clean surface, a flat pan, and a cork gasket. Of course, you can't be an idiot and over tighten the pan bolts or you ruin the gasket.
Some of the older converters had a drain plug, so you could drain the fluid out of the converter when servicing the tranny. This is how they sell trans flushes now, as all of that old fluid is left in the converter by just changing the filter and fluid in the tranny.
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For my wife's CR-V, Honda recommends doing a drain and fill on the tranny, run the car through the gears, do another drain and fill and then repeat the process one more time (three drain and fills in total). The theory is that most of the old fluid ends up getting flushed and the little bit that's left isn't a problem. It's a pain to do, and seems wasteful, but you don't have to do it very often. It's also easy to do at home, though the filler tube is a bit of a bitch to get to.