just a few more things left to do but i need to know where to fill trans its a 5 speed 93

Left side of the tranny. No pic sorry.

is it a bolt?

theres two bolts if I remember. A sqaure one and a round one. I was told to pour it in the square hole. But of course I poured it in the round one. Then I read not too long ago it didn't matter. It all ends up in the same place. Go to autozone and buy a pump to get the oil in their. It is so much easier. Also dont put in ATF like what Autozone told me. I went to the mazda dealer and got the right stuff. It was very costly but it worked. If not our website store sells royal purple!!

If you go to www.iluvmyrx7.com you can download the a pdf on the manual transmission. It has pretty good drawings.

its super easy to fill just need a pump. there two plugs both are square. just pump it in the top one until it starts coming out then it is full



i think its on the drivers side of the tranny

use a good quality gear oil it will be money well spent! Redline or royal purple like Joe Flo said.

cool you guys rock i found them and i used synthtic 75w90 gear oil mobil1 thanks again

Where you able to figure out how to fill the tranny with the manual drawings? If so then dang!! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/ohmy.png Cause i said so many bad words looking at that thing https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif

I plan on doing Red Line soon, I just have to order it. Anyone know here they sell it for a cheap pirce?? I heard summit racing isn't bad? There is a place here in SD, Ca and they want $10 a QT. I said hell NO!!

Danno - try PepBoys .. you'd be surprised at what you can find there sometimes. Heck, they even had water wetter!



As for filling the tranny... man, what a hassle. So apparently there are TWO square-ended plugs??? My top plug (the fill plug) had a torx depression in it. Man, that was a PITA to get out. From the angle I was looking at it, it looked like a mangled up 3/8ths square depression (just like on my mustang). There were bits of metal pulled up from the previous tranny fluid change.



Two strange things - thinking I could fill the tranny via the shifter, I pulled the shifter and noticed a pool of fluid in there. Should this area be filled with fluid?? I tried sopping out as much as I could and used synthetic grease on the fulcrum and end.



The other strange thing was that when I pulled out the upper drain plug I could hear air being sucked in - like there was a vacuum inside. What the heck is up with that? All I did was drain the fluid from the bottom-most plug. Nothing came out of the upper drain plug - so what's it used for???

You fill it up till a little comes out the top plug then it is full

Hmm... I just read on the mazdatrix site that you WANT to have gear lube/oil in the shifter base... fill it up to just above the lower ball...



http://www.mazdatrix.com/shiftrat.htm

I was talking about the tranny, you are right about the shifter base.

You don't have to touch the torx bolt. The fill hole has a square bolt. Just use the proper size open ended wrench on it. The drain bolt is the big one pointing down. Its a big socket, maybe like 24mm.

Uuuhm... according to the service manual I have (off the net) it says there are 3 plugs. The lower, middle, and upper. The uppermost is the fill hole. The middle and lowest are drain holes.



Holy crap.. plug "B", the middle plug looks lower than the one I pulled... did I pull the wrong plug(s)???? The tranny seems to be shifting fine, no grinding or anything like that.