how can I check trans fluid?

[my 540i and me]

I follow the instruction in www.bmwe34.net how to check trans fluid, but I accidentally open the wrong one and I loose like one qtr, I do then the especific instruction, when I remove the plug (they said: a small stream of oil runs out, the level is correct), a lot of oil runs out. So what now? CAN SOME BODY HELP ME?
The color of the fluid is brown-red, that mind some thing?

[NoSpeedLimits]

Without taking time to do the research...I am sorta confussed cause I thought there was only one plug that could be removed. So, what year and type of trans do you own?

[DueyT]

Auto or manual 540?

[632 Regal]

Nuclear powered?

[DueyT]

Nuclear powered?
Jeff, you're being silly...a flux capacitor is as good as it gets! :p

[My 540i and me]

My trans is automatic, and are 2 holes, one is drain and the other one is filler plug, they both under the trans (ZF TRANS 5 HP 30)

[632 Regal]

the top hole is the fill level or check plug, the lower one is the drain plug?

[My 540i and me]

No they both are in the bottom. Check this site, mine is 5Hp 30

http:www.bmwe34.net/e34main/Maintenance/Transmission/Data/E34%20Autotrans.pdf

The filler one is like 2 or 3 inches deep.

[scott540]

Jeff, you're being silly...a flux capacitor is as good as it gets! :p

[winfred]

1.21 gigawatts


1.1 jiggawatts?

[ryan roopnarine]

correction: 1.21 jiggawatts :p
i never figured out why they said it like that.


1.21 gigawatts

[632 Regal]

# 2 should be up in the pan an inch or 2 thats where you check and fill.

[632 Regal]

Here (http://users.rcn.com/zap.dnai/cnslt001.html)

[l8apex]

Here (http://users.rcn.com/zap.dnai/cnslt001.html)

[l8apex]

http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0209/0209016.pdf

[l8apex]

http://www.calphysics.org/articles/newscientist.html