Rufo

Pardon my lack of patience but I'm planning on doing this job on wednesday and picking up the stuff... today. I don't know what kind of fluid to use or how to clean the screen. Supposedly there's a washer I'm supposed to replace for the transmission fluid plug, I can only get that at a toyota dealer? I'm also doing an oil change on it. The engine has 132k miles exactly, is it too late to go to synthetic? And should I use 5w30 or 10w30? Oil filter sounds like a stock one for symplicity. I figure I'll pick up the transmission pan gasket, transmission fluid plug washer, and oil filter at a toyota dealer, and pick up some mobil 1 and atf at autozone or something. It's a 93 es300

So I would drain the system using the plug then drop the pan? How do you clean out the filter, just run some water through it?

A friend I work with has a lexus es300 I believe a 93. The main issue is she is having an extremely sporadic first gear. It will just randomly pull, and lose power while in first gear but not in any other gears. This leads me to believe its the transmission, is it possible this could be fixed with a fluid change since one has never been performed on this 100k mile car? What else could cause this? Also I hear the gauge needles going dead is a common problem, the cheapest solution would be getting some used needles from a junkyard? I mean it seems like a really bad safety issue if it takes you a minute to figure out what speed you're going because you cant find where the needle is. These needles have their own independent illumination from the other gauge lights? Simply painting the needles white would be the cheapest solution, I may do that if I can't find some at a junkyard. Thanks a lot, I don't know much about lexuses but do know quite a bit about cars.