TH350 Fluid Capacity ?

What's the fluid capacity of a TH350? My Chilton's says 6 pints. Is that right? I put in a gallon and it's leaking out on the floor. I hope I just over filled it. From what I remember it seems my 700R4 took a couple gallons

dmw56 said:

What's the fluid capacity of a TH350? My Chilton's says 6 pints. Is that right? I put in a gallon and it's leaking out on the floor. I hope I just over filled it. From what I remember it seems my 700R4 took a couple gallons

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I think it's somewhere in the area of 10 quarts if everything is dry before you start, depending on the converter and pan. That also includes the fluid in the converter. If you don't fill the converter, you'll have to start it, and run it through the gears before it'll take all the fluid

It has a stock converter and pan. I did fill the converter before I installed it. That took almost a gallon to fill. So I've put in 16 pints.

I just checked the manual after I posted, the official capacity is 10 to 12 quarts, depending on the converter size. You've got about 8 in there now so I wouldn't put any more in until after I started it and ran it through the gears. The last TH350 with a stock converter and pan I filled took about 10.5 quarts.

It's possible that's it's oozing out of the overflow tube because the fluid hasn't saturated the entire system. You haven't overfilled it though. Fluid will pour out of the speedo cable hole if you didn't fill plug that.

dmw56 said:

What's the fluid capacity of a TH350? My Chilton's says 6 pints. Is that right?

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That's not even close. They must have misprinted that one.

Gastrick said:

That's not even close. They must have misprinted that one.

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It says that in 2 of my Chilton's a 1973 and 1976. "6 pints to refill after draining". Just doesn't seem right.

Is my math backwards? 2 pints = 1 quart right?

Correct

Bill is right, my 350 took 10 quarts when I filled it. I started with a totally dry transmission. You have to keep checking the dipstick and running it. It takes a while to fill completely, and you can get air bubbles in there that distort the reading, so you just have to keep adding and waiting.

Don