Originally Posted by BirchMan98z

I think the back of the owner's manual says to change tranny fluid at 75k or 100k miles... not sure. Check the back of your manual, it's got suggested service intervals.

Originally Posted by RENE95Z

A Haynes manual has a pretty decent step by step. But, in a nutshell; get the car elevated high enough and on jackstands so you can get underneath. Start by loosening all the bolts around the pan. Remove all the bolts on the rear of the pan and then evenly loosen the bolts on the front of the pan to allow the rear to tilt down and drain (make sure you have plenty of newspaper laying around). Continue to loosen the bolts on the sides of the pan also. Eventually you will get to the point where one hand is holding the pan and the other hand is unscrewing the bolts. Be careful or you will be wearing some fluid.

Once the pan is off, clean it with gas or some other similar type cleaner (no H2O) and dry the pan real good. Drops of fluid will continue to drip from the transmission while you are doing this (newspaper). Pull the filter out and reinsert the new filter and then just reverse the process.

This is not a hard job, just a messy job. Also, I had to remove a linkage of some sort on the side of the pan to get the pan off (do this first). However, this was on a 95, so I have no idea if you will have to do the same or not.

Hope this helps.