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Originally Posted by MouthfulOfGrass
Good tip, thanks.
I was told by the dealership that the filter is "flushed" under pressure, when they change fluid, that there is no removeable filter.
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The dealership is wrong. The 00-04 trucks have a replaceable filter element in the pan. I've changed many myself. It's not as critical as say a GM truck because our filters are more like screens than filters. They're not an extremely fine filtering media. The problem is Toyota uses a really nasty RTV sealant on the pan instead of a gasket, and it is a bitch to pull the pan off, clean the pan, and clean the pan gasket mating surface on the trans, even on a lift. It'd be a royal PITA to do it on the ground.
If you drop the pan and replace the filter, fill it with 4.5qts and check it. Should be above the bottom line of the cold section. A little low is okay, you don't want to overfill a transmission.